Time for Spaghetti in Haruki Murakami’s Fiction

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  • 村上春樹のスパゲティーの時間
  • 村上春樹のスパゲティーの時間 : 資本主義社会において料理に時間をかけること
  • ムラカミ ハルキ ノ スパゲティー ノ ジカン : シホン シュギ シャカイ ニ オイテ リョウリ ニ ジカン オ カケル コト
  • What Cooking Time Means in a Consumerist Society
  • 資本主義社会において料理に時間をかけること

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Today, a “rich life” is often associated with a “busy life.” It is because being busy is a means to have enough income through work and enough leisure time through consumption of goods and services. Interestingly, in the era where a busy life is taken for granted, contemporary Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has achieved a global popularity by describing protagonists who are not busy. Murakami’s protagonists commonly work from home and spend decent time for cooking and housework. This paper, focusing on the way they spend time in everyday life, aims to discuss how the peculiarity of their life style reflects the author’s observation of a capitalist society.

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  • Time Studies

    Time Studies 9 (0), 9-22, 2018

    The Japanese Society for Time Studies

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