Underground

Alternate cover edition here.In spite of the perpetrators intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after effects Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day He also interviews members and ex members of the doomsdays cult responsible, in the hope that they might be able to explain the reason for the attack and how it was that their guru instilled such devotion in his followers. New Download [ Underground ] author [ Haruki Murakami ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Absolutely heartbreaking I had no idea about this event in history until reading this Insane.Amazing, thoughtful compilation of interviews conducted by Murakami While the accounts of the gas attack itself are both shocking and fascinating, it also gives invaluable insight into what it means to be Japanese and the life that is expected of you In fact, when reading the rigid and all prevailing work ethic of the commuters on their way to work on the doomed trains, the sense of entrapping routine makes you wonder how crazy the interviewed Aum members are for wanting to escape it A cul Amazing, thoughtful compilation of interviews conducted by Murakami While the accounts of the gas attack itself are both shocking and fascinating, it also gives invaluable insight into what it means to be Japanese and the life that is expected of you In fact, when reading the rigid and all prevailing work ethic of the commuters on their way to work on the doomed trains, the sense of entrapping routine makes you wonder how crazy the interviewed Aum members are for wanting to escape it A cult may be written off as a collective conscience of weak robotic drones, but take a closer look at the Japanese Psyche as the ill fated commuters desperately try to ignore their symptoms as they continue struggling to work, in many cases half blind and unable to walk Having said that, Murakami doesn t sugar coat the Aum members in his interviews and asks them some difficult questions and rightly so, terrorism is never acceptable To plea unawareness and b...On March 20, 1995, during the morning rush hour, five men dropped 11 bags of sarin on five subway trains in Tokyo They punctured the plastic bags with the sharpened ends of umbrellas and exited the cars as the deadly liquid leaked onto the floor and evaporated into the air of the crowded trains In the end, 13 people were killed and 6,300were injured, many of them left blind or paralyzed Japan was flung into crisis mode The men who caused the havoc were members of Aum Shinrikyo, a Japan On March 20, 1995, during the morning rush hour, five men dropped 11 bags of sarin on five subway trains in Tokyo They punctured the plastic bags with the sharpened ends of umbrellas and exited the cars as the deadly liquid leaked onto the floor and evaporated into the air of the crowded trains In the end, 13 people were killed and 6,30...without a proper ego nobody can create a personal narrative, anythan you can drive a car without an engine, or cast a shadow without a real physical object But once you ve consigned your ego to someone else, where on earth do you go from thereHaruki Murakami, UndergroundLooking back 20 years to the Tokyo Gas Attack, it seems inevitable that Murakami would write about it Writing about dark tunnels that bridge both the victims and the devout, that link a damp tongue of evil with thewithout a proper ego nobody can create a personal narrative, anythan you...There was a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway system carried out in 1995 by a religious cult called Aum They released poison gas, called sarin, during rush hour on several different train lines, killing 13 people, and injuring hundreds of others This book contains interviews of people caught in the attack, as well as interviews of members of the Aum cult, although none of them were perpetrators of the attack.As a reader from another country, I feel like I m missing a lot I read the book fe There was a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway system carried out in 1995 by a religious cult called Aum They released poison gas, called sarin, during rush hour on several different train lines, killing 13 people, and injuring hundreds of others This book contains interviews of people caught in the attack, as well as interviews of members of the Aum cult, although none of them were perpetrators of the attack.As a reader from another country, I feel like I m missing a lot I read the book feeling like Murakami was assuming I already was familiar with both the gas att... I had to learnabout the Japanese as a form of consciousness. Haruki MurakamiI ve always known Murakami for his mystical, mythical stories Following his characters is usually like taking dancing classes the first steps seem quite sensible but soon you find yourself in an inextricable knot that you don t know how to get out of His stories are from another realm, to such an extent that Murakami himself seemed way out there I always pictured him as a black clad dreamweaver, spinning his I had to learnabout the Japanese as a form of consciousness. Haruki MurakamiI ve always ...This is actually two books Part I 1 223 , titled Underground Andaguraundo was published in 1997 Part II The Place that was Promised was written and published separately the following year.Part I consists of interviews with the victims see updates this section is too long and is tedious Part II consists of interviews with members and former members of Aum Shinrikyo.And this is where things get really weird.http en.wikipedia.org wi... Words can be practically useless at times, but as a writer they re all I have. A group of people killed another group of people I could be talking about a number of things A description of the present An incident in history A prediction of the future The final result of brainwashing The beginning of a new era A cause A conclusion The means The end A resolution An excuse The threat executed by an oppressor The exigency fulfilled by a nation Culture clash Revolution Murder Self Words can be practically useless at times, but as a writer they re all I have. A group of people killed another group of people I could be talking about a number of things A description of the present An incident in history A prediction of the future The final result of brainwashing The beginning of a new era A cause A conclusion The means The end A resolution An excuse The threat executed by an oppressor The exigency fulfilled by a nation Culture clash Revolution Murder Self defense Genocide The right to bear arms The death penalty Patriotism Nationalism Faith Religion Heaven Hell Pick a cult, pick a cult any cult ll doI f someone had fallen d...The bestselling novelist Haruki Murakami gives a Studs Terkelish treatment to the Tokyo sarin gas attacks of 1995 which killed 12 and injured hundreds There s a great deal about Terkel s methods to like when Terkel uses them , but they fall flat here I don t think the oral history treatment works well in this instance, in which every victim is in the same location the subway system and is subjected to the same assault the approximately 30 victim accounts are extremely repetitive, which bec The bestselling novelist Haruki Murakami gives a Studs Terkelish treatment to the Tokyo sarin gas attacks of 1995 which killed 12 and in...library This is a book about the sarin attack in the Tokyo subway system on March 20, 1995 As you would expect from Murakami, it is thoughtful and careful It consists primarily of interviews the first part, Underground, is interviews with survivors the second part, The Place that was Promised, is interviews with members and former members of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult responsible for the attacks The translation, insofar as I can judge, seems good I hope it s accurate The one thing I would h library This is a book about the sarin attack in the Tokyo subway system on March 20, 1995 As you would expect from Murakami, it is thoughtful and careful It consists primarily of interviews the first part, Underground, is interviews with survivors the second part, T...

• English
• 16 February 2018
Haruki Murakami
• Paperback
• 309 pages
• 0099461099
• Haruki Murakami
• Underground