Ryū Murakami, Chronicler of Japan's Underside, Dies at 74
The novelist and filmmaker, known for fiction about sex, drugs and social outsiders during Japan's boom years and the bust that followed, has died, The New York Times reports.
Ryū Murakami has died at 74, according to The New York Times. The newspaper's obituary describes him as a writer who turned a sharp eye on Japan's dark side, producing novels about sex, drugs and social misfits that sold millions of copies across his career.
The Times situates his work against the arc of Japan's postwar economy: his fiction tracked the excesses of the boom years and the disorientation that followed the bust, giving voice to characters living at the margins of a society undergoing rapid change.
The available reporting does not specify individual titles, translators, or French editions of his work, nor details of his death. Further particulars will depend on fuller coverage as it appears.
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