{"id":781,"date":"2019-02-10T22:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T03:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2019-02-10T22:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T03:38:40","slug":"clueless-murakami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/10\/clueless-murakami\/","title":{"rendered":"Clueless Murakami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before starting Murakami&#8217;s huge (970 pages, good lord) new novel <em>Killing Comentadore, <\/em>I read <em>Men Without Women<\/em>, a slight book of short stories told to the narrator Murakami by men, some of whom are friends, others acquaintances, all of whom are currently living without women. \u00a0Some of them care, some of them don&#8217;t, and some are suicidal or dead, but what they have in common is that they are more or less clueless about the women who have vanished from their lives. The Murakami girl is either a superhero (1Q84) or she disappears never to be seen again.<\/p>\n<p>Taeko Kono is one of them. And she&#8217;s nasty:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/10\/clueless-murakami\/41yjujfebl-_sx322_bo1204203200_\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-787\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-787\" src=\"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/41YjujFebL._SX322_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/41YjujFebL._SX322_BO1204203200_.jpg 324w, http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/41YjujFebL._SX322_BO1204203200_-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before starting Murakami&#8217;s huge (970 pages, good lord) new novel Killing Comentadore, I read Men Without Women, a slight book of short stories told to the narrator Murakami by men, some of whom are friends, others acquaintances, all of whom are currently living without women. \u00a0Some of them care, some of them don&#8217;t, and some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/10\/clueless-murakami\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clueless Murakami&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10,37,34,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","category-artists","category-identity","category-politics","category-writers","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mutualgaze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}