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Haruki Murakami HARUKI MURAKAMI
The Art of Fiction No. 182
Interviewed by John Wray
Issue 170, Summer 2004
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From the Interview
INTERVIEWER
What was the first book you read in English?

MURAKAMI
The Name Is Archer, by Ross MacDonald. I learned a lot of things from those books. Once I started, I couldn't stop. At the same time I also loved to read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Those books are also page-turners; they're very long, but I couldn't stop reading. So for me it's the same thing, Dostoyevsky and Raymond Chandler. Even now, my ideal for writing fiction is to put Dostoyevsky and Chandler together in one book. That's my goal.
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