Murakami) is a marathon athlete. Looking back on running his record has just recently translated into German. In the following,
SPIEGEL: Mr. Murakami, writing fiction and running a marathon, which is harder?
Murakami: Writing is a very interesting thing - at least in most cases the case. I write four hours a day, and then go running. Under the old habit of running 10 km per day (6.2 miles). Easier to run down this distance. The breath run 42.195 km (26 miles) much more difficult. However, the difficulty is what I wish of things. I intend to impose their own kind of pain. For me, this is the most important aspect of running a marathon.
SPIEGEL: So, what kind of feel better, to complete a manuscript, or crossed the marathon finish line?
Murakami: a novel full stop is like giving birth to a child, the birth of that unique moment. Life of a lucky writer may be able to write 12 novels. My body does not know how many good works there, I hope there forty-five it. But while running I do not feel this restriction. Almost every four years, I would out of a voluminous novel, but every year I have a 10 km run, a half marathon and a full marathon. Now I have ran 27 marathon, and most recently in January. Section 28,29 and 30 will be a matter of course to come.
SPIEGEL: Your new book next week will market the German version, the book describes the experience you become a runner, also discussed the importance of running for your writing. Why did you write such an autobiography of his work?
Murakami: Ever since I first started running - it was 25 years ago, the fall of 1982 - I have been asking why they should engage in such an exercise. Why not play football? Why am I just living as a serious writer, began the day I started running? Often only be thinking of resorting to pen, I can understand things. I found that running when I started to write to write my own.
SPIEGEL: Why did you start running?
Murakami: I want to lose weight. A writer that just a few years, I smokes very fierce, almost to smoke 60 a day, to come to concentrate on writing. Smoking makes my teeth and fingernails yellow. 33 years old, I decided to quit smoking, the results Yaokua lot of fat around the smoke. So I started running. Running in my opinion is the most viable way to lose weight.
SPIEGEL: Why?
Murakami: collective motion not to my liking. I found that if I could do at their own pace is one thing, everything will become a lot easier. Moreover, running do not need companions, but also not to play tennis as in need of special venues. All you need is a pair of running shoes is enough. Judo is not for me; I'm not a fighter. Nothing to overcome the long-distance people. Your only opponent is yourself, does not involve anyone else, but you will be in an inner struggle being: stronger than the last time I had it? Time and time again to push the performance limits of their own, which is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain will never abandon me, I can handle it it. This is consistent with my character's.
SPIEGEL: Then how about your physical condition?
Murakami: In the beginning, up the 20 minutes I will not breathe, heart pound, to Mengtiao more than his legs began to tremble. Even running as long as people look at me I would feel uncomfortable. But I like running when brushing your teeth will be imaging things to do every day, so my progress very quickly. Less than a year, I ran the first marathon of individuals, but informal.
SPIEGEL: You yourself ran from the Athens marathon. What attracted you do?
Murakami: it is the original sense of the marathon - the first time in the history of marathon route. I was running along the opposite direction, I do not want to arrive in Athens urban area during rush hours. Before that I never ran more than 35 km distance; my legs and upper body is not particularly strong; I do not know what the road will encounter. Is like a piece of virgin land on the long-distance running.
SPIEGEL: how did you finish it?
Murakami: That was in July, the weather is very, very hot. Hot to death, even the early morning are intolerable heat. I had never been to Greece, so this summer I was surprised. Half an hour later, I take off his shirt and then, I count the street side of the body dead cats dead dog, while dreaming of a bottle of cold beer. The sun makes me extremely violent, it's burning anger Yan grilled me, my skin began to give birth to tiny blisters. Finally, I ran 3 hours 51 minutes, the score was decent. When I reached the finishing line in front of the tap at a gas station rushed over and over itself, but also a dream to drink beer. Gas station attendant heard that I came all the way from Athens, came to give me a bouquet of flowers.
SPIEGEL: You ran a marathon best was how much?
Murakami: 3 hours, 27 minutes, 1991 in New York, my own under the stopwatch. Equivalent to almost 1 km every 5 minutes. I am very proud of this result, because the last paragraph of this route, which is that part way through Central Park, is really very hard. Later, I tried several times to go beyond this result, but I'm getting older by. Personal best while I am no longer so enthusiastic about the. For me, the most important satisfaction of their own.
SPIEGEL: When you are running what would be meditation or prayer scriptures it?
Murakami: No, I just Once in a while said to myself: Haruki, you can do. But basically what I do not want to run when.
SPIEGEL: Really could do, what are not?
Murakami: running, my brain would clear one of the thoughts. I think of all the running processes are subordinate to itself. Those in the running of the idea came to me like the waves of the wind - and to the mortal, and floated away, leaving no trace.
SPIEGEL: You listen to music while running it?
Murakami: only listen to during training. This time I will listen to rock music. Currently my favorite is the crazy street preacher (Manic Street Preachers). If I occasionally go out jogging early in the morning, put water in the MD in the choir (Creedence Clearwater Revival) of the disc. Their songs have a simple and natural rhythm.
SPIEGEL: how to give yourself and encouraging you to go running every day?
Murakami: sometimes the weather is too hot, sometimes cold, sometimes too gloomy. But I'll still go running. I know that if I do not go out that day running around the next day will not go. Human nature does not like unnecessary burden to bear, so the human body will always load quickly become accustomed to in sports. This is absolutely not work. Writing is the same. I write every day, so I do not mind to become accustomed to thinking. So step by step I was able to raise the benchmark text, like running can make muscles grow stronger and stronger.
SPIEGEL: You are the only child at home, writing is lonely work items, and you have a person running. Between these facts What are the potential for?
Murakami: There is no doubt. I'm used to being alone, but take it as music. Different with my wife, I do not like somebody. I have been married 37 years, or for that matter will always upset. I often need to work on the job to the early morning, and now every day I nine or ten to go to bed.
SPIEGEL: You have before becoming a writer and runner, also has opened in Tokyo, a jazz club. It is difficult to imagine a more dramatic way of life changed.
Murakami: In the business club, I always stood behind the counter, my job is to chat with customers. So did a full seven years, but in fact I am not a talker. I have an oath: come to an end once the work here, I will only talk with those people who I really want to talk.
SPIEGEL: When did you realize that for a living?
Murakami: April 1978, the Jingu Stadium in Tokyo,UGG boots clearance, I'm watching a baseball game. At that time the sun was shining, I was drinking beer. Suddenly, the Yakult Swallows team, David Hilton (Dave Hilton) hit a perfect strike a note. At this moment I know I came to write a novel. Genial and warm feeling that has my heart still holds the feel of it. Now I use the new I never never broadcast on television, very few will participate in reading,UGGs, and very unwilling to let the media take photographs. I rarely give interviews. I am a loner.
SPIEGEL: Do you know Alan Sillitoe wrote the novel
Murakami: that book left me with the impression is not deep, very boring to read. You could see he was not a runner Sillitoe. But I think it makes sense proposition: running to help the hero find his self. In running the only thing he found that he was a free state. I can agree with that.
SPIEGEL: So what church you running?
Murakami: It tells me: I will go to the end. Running my own writing in order to maintain confidence. Through running, I was able to understand what can be obtained within the limits of their own, when to rest, when to rest too far. I know where the limits of their own efforts.
SPIEGEL: It is running to make you a better writer?
Murakami: Exactly. My muscles become stronger, and my thoughts more clearly. I believe that artists who live unhealthy lives of their talent will burn more quickly depleted. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janice Qiu Pulin idol of my youth - they all died young, but in fact they do not have this qualification. Only as the genius of Mozart and Pushkin to be eligible this early mortality. Jimi Hendrix is great, but not smart enough because of his drug use. Unhealthy work in the arts, the artist should put a healthy life to be made up. Writer to find his story is dangerous, running to help me avoid this danger.
SPIEGEL: Can you explain this a little under it?
Murakami: When the writer wrote a story, he is a toxin in the face of the body. If you do not have this toxin, your story will be boring and mediocre. It's like puffer fish: the meat of puffer fish is extremely delicious, but it's eggs, liver and heart have lethal toxic. My stories are in the depths of my mind a dark and dangerous place, I could feel the consciousness of the toxins, but I can take a larger dose of the toxin, because I have a strong body. When you are young, your body strong, it is often no training can overcome this toxin. But after 40 years of age, your strength faded, if still living an unhealthy life, you can not deal with toxins out.
SPIEGEL: J ・ D ・ Salinger wrote only the only one novel, He is not too weak to bear his poison?
Murakami: I have the book translated into Japanese. This work is very good, but not complete. Stories become more and more gloomy, Holden Caulfield can not find the way out of the dark world. I think Salinger himself did not find. Exercise will not help him might be saved? I do not know.
Mirror: Running will give you a writing inspiration?
Murakami: No,UGG boots cheap, because I'm not easily able to reach the source of the story writer. I have to dig their own. I have to dig deep to reach the dark parts of my soul, my stories are hidden in there. Also for this reason, I must have a strong body. Since the start of running,cheap UGG boots, I can maintain focus on a more lasting state, while the dark areas to in-depth take several hours of energy is highly concentrated. Along the way, you can find in all things: the image, character, metaphor. If your body is weak, you will miss them; you do not have the power to seize them and brought them to the surface of consciousness. Writing is not the main job of digging to the source, but from the darkness to return. This run is the same. There is a price for what you have to either pay across the finish line.
SPIEGEL: You run, is not also in a similar darkness?
Murakami: Running in a I am very familiar with things. Running a quiet place when I live.
SPIEGEL: You lived in the United States a few years. U.S. and Japanese runners have any difference?
Murakami: There is no difference, but when I lived in Cambridge (in Harvard University as a writer) clearly feel that there is an elite group, its members run different way with mortals.
SPIEGEL: Did you mean?
Murakami: My running route along the Charles River is a forward on the road often to see some young girls, those Harvard students. They walked with long strides while jogging, wearing iPod headphones, blond ponytail swinging behind the shake to go, the whole body shine. They also know they are different. This self-consciousness they left me a deep impression. I'm better than they run, but they had a sort of provocation as a positive thing. They and I really not the same. I never belong to the elite.
SPIEGEL: You can tell the novice and the veteran long-distance running it?
Murakami: novice is always running too fast, shallow breathing. The veteran is always very relaxed. Between veteran can recognize each other to each other, as if another writer to recognize the same language and style writer.
SPIEGEL: Your work style is magical realism, reality and fantasy intertwined. Running is also surreal or metaphysical side - not just the sheer physical effort?
Murakami: Any act, as long as you do for a long time to bring some kind of philosophy would mean. In 1995 I participated in a 100 km race, and spent 11 hours 42 minutes finish the course, at the end it becomes a religious experience was.
SPIEGEL: Aha.
Murakami: I'm almost to 55 kilometers collapse, my legs became not listen to command, I feel like the two horses was tearing my body. About 75 km, I suddenly ran down to normal, the pain has disappeared. I entered the I can even continue to run down. However, I will not go super-marathon running.
SPIEGEL: Why?
Murakami: After this extreme experience, I entered what I call a
SPIEGEL: What kind of state?
Murakami: A listless feeling. I'm tired of running. Running 100 km is a very, very boring thing, over 11 hours where you get to be alone ran me swallow this nonsense. The power to run it from my soul siphoned off. Loss of a positive attitude, I have become hate running, spent several weeks are like this.
SPIEGEL: You are to find how to re-run the fun of it?
Murakami: I tried to force myself to run, but to no avail. The fun has gone. So I decided to try other sports. I want a new stimulus, so I started to practice triathlon. The results worked, over a period of time, I desire to run back. SPIEGEL: You have 59 years old. How long you intend to run the marathon?
Murakami: as long as it can walk, I would have run down. You know I'm going to write anything on your tombstone?
SPIEGEL: Please let us know.
Murakami:
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