Disclosure: This blog post contains affiliate links, which means that I may earn a small commission from recommended links at no extra cost to you. kristindianmariano.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and Bookdepository affiliate program.
Although none of his works is explicitly mentioned in the book, I think that Murakami dedicated this work to another Japanese writer Yukio Mishima whose suicide was mentioned on the first pages. According to critics, A Wild Sheep Chase is a rewriting or parody of Mishima’s The Adventure of Natsuko.
I came across an interesting fact that every year, Murakami fans gather in Bifuka, Hokkaido to wait for the Nobel Prize announcements hoping that the beloved author will be called. The Matsuyama Farm in the northern part of Hokkaido inspired the mythical Junitaki-cho.
Here are the book titles mentioned in A Wild Sheep Chase.
- Ellery Queen Mysteries (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- A la Recherche du Temps Perdus (In Search of Lost Time) – Marcel Proust (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- And Quiet Flows the Don – Mikhail Sholokhov (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- Ideologie Germanica (Theologia Germanica: Popularized by Martin Luther) (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss (Amazon, Bookdepository)
—
Also Read:Murakami reading list: Books mentioned in Sputnik Sweetheart
Subscribe to my newsletter to get the full list
[…] Also Read: Books mentioned in A Wild Sheep Chase […]