What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami Taschenbuch

Dieses Buch ist eine wunderbare und tiefgehende Betrachtung der Verbindung zwischen dem Schreiben und dem Laufen und bietet einen wirklich inspirierenden Einblick in Haruki Murakamis Welt. Ich empfehle es jedem, der sich für die Schnittpunkte von Kreativität und Bewegung interessiert.

Tiefgründig!

How it comes to the point that Marukami started writing? It was a mood, not real intention to start a career. Trial and error. Why not to take this approach. He did it with his jazz club and had success. He wrote the novel Hear the Wind Sing in 1978 and got an award. So, he was able to write and get paid to write. The next novel „Pinball, 1973“ was published in 1982.I can see my readers in my mind. I want to evolve, get better and a real conceptional human relationship helps me to go further and improve. Like running, with training he will reach excellence. Murakami apply the Pareto-Principle without mention it. He wants to run his jazz club in that way that 1 of 10 will be happy and will come again. So, he sees the readers of his books. If 1 of 10 like it they will buy the next book from him.He is an early bird. He starts early in the morning and work hard but doesn’t forget the pauses, the sport. His productive time is from 5 am to 10 pm.He set to the desk for four hours regularly and write or think about something and makes notes or do some translation. Murakami translated „The Great Gatsby“ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He wondered how such a young man can have so much human experience. F. Scott Fitzgerald was just 29 years old. He must be a real talent, a giant.His training for Marathon was a 5-miles stretch in Imperia Park, he repeated it 7 times to get the marathon distance.He explained that the Marathon will get difficult at about after the first 22 miles. This is the power of will the mental power that counts.He eats fresh fish and vegetables and cut down on indulgence to get fit for the marathon. What counts are the three pillars: talent, focus and endurance.Talented writers are seldom. Most writers had to work hard to accomplish the story. He likes writing as he likes running. And both are essential. Tendencies can be adjusted, essence not. So. he believe in having a talent, a talent to a long-distance running and top write. He had not finished the novels without running. He is proud to accomplished the novels and he is curious about what is coming next. He would say this is life – the evolvement and the relationship between body and mind. He balanced the stories between inner and external stuff. Fantasy and reality. The contemplation about this is during the running. Something is achieved by reflection others by intuition or by chance. Unconsciously.He compares himself as a long-distance runner with the proud running pony-tail girls from Harvard University who don’t know what pain is. They are always on the bright side of life and it seems like they are in a perfect world: young, pretty, rich, successful. He is brag to know what matters what he knows about running.The top experience was the super marathon he took in and achieved it. He was running the last miles like an auto pilot. He did much work with his arms because the feet failed to obey, don’t did what they should have done.Murakami sensed resignation after the super marathon. He developed a new relationship to running. He started triathlon.A valuable reflection is his retrospective. As a young man he had created a list of deficiencies he discovered, The „sad spreadsheet of my life“, he said. But then he decided that we all have deficiencies but as well impaccable sides. So debts and assets are given but one has to develop the best of it.He failed in swimming. He solved the issue by taking a coach. Finally, he took revenge and accomplished the race. Sometimes one wants to do but cannot do. „Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut “. Good things need time and slow thinking is sometimes valuable approach.Learning from experience makes a lot of fun. Experience is often linked to pain. Pain is needed. It is life and to overcome pain is what is what a marathon runner experienced.One has to accept something that is inefficient and fruitless. That is life.

In diesem autobiographischen Büchlein schreibt der japanische Autor Murakami über sein Hobby des Langstreckenlaufs und verknüpft es mit seiner Kariere als Autor. Wenn Bücher schreiben und Laufen brauchen beide eine Regelmäßigkeit und Ausdauer um erfolgreich zu sein. Er beschreibt seine Höhen und Tiefen als Läufer, über seine ersten Lauferfahrungen, seinen Ultramarathon bis hin zum Wunsch auch Triathlons zu Laufen. Besonders geht er auf sein Training zum New York Marathon in 2005 ein, wie sich sein Lauferlebnis mit dem Alter verändert.Ich fand das Buch auch als absoluter Nicht-Läufer interessant und schön zu lesen. Murakami hat auch persönlich einen ähnlichen Stil wie in seinen Büchern: persönlich, direkt, leicht esoterisch und alltagsbezogen.Murakami hat keine trockene Anleitung zum Laufen verfasst, vielmehr beschreibt er was ihn motiviert und antreibt, wie er Läuft und was für ihn am besten funktioniert. Er philosophiert auch durchaus recht viel über die Einsamkeit des Laufens, die Bedeutung für sein Leben und noch viele andere Randthemen, die ihm so in den Sinn kommen.Ich fand es gut Murakami auch etwas auf einer menschlichen Ebene kennen zu lernen ohne gleich eine komplette Biographie von Anfang bis Ende lesen zu müssen (was es zugegebenerweise von Murakami gar nicht gibt).Auch wenn ich selbst nicht Laufe und auch nicht wirklich Interesse an dem Sport habe, so fand ich das Buch trotzdem interessant zu lesen, weil einen Murakamis Begeisterung durchaus mit nimmt und ich ihn auch ohne fachliche Ebene dennoch persönlich verstehen konnte.Ich vermute für Läufer ist das Buch noch mal interessanter, weil sie sich gegebenenfalls in Murakamis Erfahrungen und Schilderungen auch selbst wiederfinden können.

Das Buch von Murakami finde ich im Vergleich zu seinen anderen Büchern weniger entspannend, aber trotzdem fleißig. Empfehlenswert für diejenigen, die joggen möchten oder schon seit langem joggen, aber jetzt sich fragen, warum mache ich das? (: