A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (. . . ) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is watching Murakami come at his obsessions from so many different angles. There's a panoply of strangeness between these covers (. . . . . ) This collection shows Murakami at his dynamic, organic best. As a chronicler of contemporary alienation, a writer for the Radiohead age, he shows how taut and thin our routines have become, how ill-equipped we are to contend with the forces that threaten to disrupt us.
happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.
