5. The Great Gatsby Is The Most Important Novel In His Life
Since the beginning of his career as a writer, Murakami has translated dozens of books into Japanese, including the entire works of Raymond Carver, multiple Truman Capote novels and J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye. The most important of these, however, Murakami claims to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. He once described The Great Gatsby as the most important novel in his life. For a long time Murakami had aspirations of translating Gatsby when he turned sixty, but his translation was actually published when he was fifty-seven pretty close, all things considered.
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