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re: over-analyzing words from translated literature i’ve actually complained about this in my creative writing classes and argue that what we love about murakami’s writing is actually due to rubin’s genius rubin has a way with words that dramatizes sensibility, murakami does not

but for people studying how to write, they’re going to attribute it to murakami and also assume these techniques are “japanese” we should emulate them because they are different murakami emulating translations of carver is well-known and he even says he’s not that “japanese”

there just seems to be a reluctance in both critics and writers to recognize that the translated works we read come from the translators, inspired by other things they’ve read and interacting with the inspirations of the actual writer’s works it’s Just The Writer and it’s bad