Fatima Atfa (Abu Dhabi)
The book “My Profession is the Novel” by the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, who immigrated to the United States, was the topic of the discussion session at the “Literary Forum Salon” the day before yesterday Asmaa Siddiq Al -Mutawa, the founder of the forum, moderated the discussion, noting that Haruki Murakami was one of the most famous writers of the time, and he wrote the same widely distributed and sold, because two published a million copies of one of his novels.
His work has been translated into fifty languages. The funny thing is that the idea of writing suddenly occurred to him while attending a basketball game, even though he had no interest in reading the novel and did not know the his features, but he bought paper and a fountain pen and started writing whatever came to him, but he didn’t like that experience, so he decided to rewrite it in English, despite how little knowledge he had on the language, so he destroyed the first copy, and returned to write the English text again in his The Japanese language appeared, in a style characterized by simplicity and spontaneity, and thus his first novel, “Hear the Wind Singing,” for which he won the Gonzo Award for Literature. Youth.
In the introduction to this book, he says: “I think this book will be considered a kind of ‘biographical essay,’ but in reality it was not written on the basis of this. ” In his articles, he talks about literary awards, and emphasizes that he cares more about the reader than the awards.
Rana Manzalaji said: This book made her think that every one of us has a novel inside him and that he has a story, which he succeeds in telling or is still buried in the folds of the memory and there the bundles of the subconscious.
In the intervention of Dr. Jamila Khanji pointed out that this book was not a story or an autobiography, but a collection of deep reflections dealing with Murakami’s writing experience and how he dealt with creativity, solitude and perseverance.
The engineer Hanadi Al-Solh said in his intervention: The value of the book for me is in the beautiful publication of the writer, and this publication shows the true personality of the writer, his philosophy, and his opinion on the society.
The book is a rich creative experience, useful and attractive in reading It is translated by Ahmed Hussein Al-Muaini, and published by Dar Al-Adab in Beirut.
