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345:, the book expanded the number of footnotes to 442, changed the writing style in the footnotes from plain form to polite form, and added final notes reporting statistics on population decline in Japan. The book sold over 800,000 copies in its initial release, and eventually sold over a million copies. Historian Eiko Maruko Siniawer has observed that the book was a phenomenon of public culture, in which it was often cited as an example of Japanese consumerism, but also provided a useful guide for young people who were interested in pursuing the lifestyle portrayed in the story. The term "kurisutaru zoku" (lit. "crystal tribe") came into popular use to describe these young consumers, and companies began using the word "crystal" to promote their products. 235:, largely dismissing the main narrative thread as "thin on plot", "plotless", having a "thin plot", having a plot that "verges on nonexistence", and providing "mere scaffolding" for the notes. The published book contains 442 notes, most of which explain, and opine about, brands, music, places, and trends that the characters encounter, leading literary scholar Faye Yuan Kleeman to describe the book as a "thinly disguised product and lifestyle endorsement narrative". The anthropologist Fabio Gygi has summarized 354: 413:. Written in the first person, the sequel takes the perspective of a married politician who meets up with ex-girlfriends, discusses the state of Japanese politics and society, and catches up with Yuri, the main character from the first novel, who has become a 54-year old businessperson working in public relations. Like the original novel, the sequel incorporates many notes, including updated statistics on the declining birth rate and overall aging of the Japanese population. In a 2021 essay for 279:, the notes, which in the book are written in a completely different style to the main text, reflect a dominant, masculine authorial voice that she describes as a "voyeuristic presence" watching and responding to the main female character. Christopher Smith, a literary scholar and translator of Tanaka's work, instead interprets the main text and notes as expressions of two aspects of Yuri's identity, which she manipulates in order to navigate different social situations and relationships. 223:
relatively frictionless life as "crystal". Yuri has a sexual encounter with Masataka that she enjoys but finds less satisfying than her experiences with Jun'ichi. When Jun'ichi returns, Yuri learns that he also was unfaithful during his trip, but she reflects on her financial independence and decides that staying with Jun'ichi is the best fit for her crystal lifestyle.
372:, scholars and critics have, for different reasons, identified the book as an important work of postmodern Japanese literature. Literary scholar Matthew Strecher identifies the book's publication as the starting point of a postmodern literary trend that "resists the concepts and definitions" of traditional Japanese literature, comparing it to the early work of 384:
is the "most typical" example of postmodern Japanese novels that, through the "disintegration of narrative art", also remove the possibility of cultural resistance to commercial dominance. From a different theoretical perspective, Norma Field calls the novel the "exemplary phenomenon of the decade in
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about postmodernism as a shift away from narrative and toward hypertext and database as cultural forms, Marc Yamada highlights the relationship between main text and annotations as a "database of cultural information that the reader is required to synthesize", thereby decentering the possibility of a
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While her boyfriend Jun'ichi is out of town, college student and part-time model Yuri passes the time in Tokyo by shopping for luxury products, visiting affluent neighborhoods, eating expensive food, and seeking new kinds of entertainment. At a dance club she meets Masataka, to whom she describes her
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For some critics and scholars, the notes seemed to promote consumerism. Contemporary critic Takashi Tsumura attributed the popularity of the book not to any literary merits, but to its particular appeal to young consumers. Noting the detail with which a single paragraph contains notes for shops like
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in 1981. A bestseller shortly after publication, the novel was controversial among contemporary critics for its apparent glorification of luxury consumption and its use of extensive annotations to identify desirable real-world products, brands, services, and locations encountered by the book's
27: 255:, and places to eat such as Chez Lui and Lecomte, literary scholar Marc Yamada observed that the notes divert attention away from the main text, instead "focusing the reader's desire on consumer products". Comparing the book to a series of television commercials, literary scholar 26: 455:, starring Kazuko Katō as Yuri, Toshio Kamei as Jun'ichi, and Zenzō Shimizu as Masataka. The promotional poster for the film prominently featured a listing of the foreign songs on the soundtrack, including " 326:
was highly controversial, with critics focusing on its lack of conventional narrative development and apparent endorsement of consumer culture. Although the story was also nominated for the
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showed how young Japanese people and their desires differed from previous generations, concluding that the film was "unimportant as art, but nevertheless an important social document".
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Japan", and suggests that the novel's narrative and notes together create a postmodern "atmosphere" from within which opposition to the "logic of cultural capitalism" cannot be mounted.
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as an early example of postmodern "database fiction" that reflected the influence of new technology and information structures on Japanese literature. In Masao Miyoshi's reading,
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Gygi, Fabio (2017). "The Metamorphosis of Excess: 'Rubbish Houses' and the Imagined Trajectory of Things in Post-Bubble Japan". In Cwiertka, Katarzyna; Machotka, Ewa (eds.).
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Shortly after the book's release in Japan, multiple unauthorized Korean translations were published in South Korea. A German translation, titled
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Miyoshi, Masao (1989). "Against the Native Grain: The Japanese Novel and the "Postmodern" West". In Miyoshi, Masao; Harootunian, Harry (eds.).
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Strecher, Matthew (1998). "Beyond "Pure" Literature: Mimesis, Formula, and the Postmodern in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki".
419:, Tanaka reflected that people largely had not responded to the concerns about population trends he expressed in the notes of 1223: 423:, and acknowledged that his original prediction that fertility rates could turn around had not been borne out in practice. 1565: 1575: 1261: 456: 1187: 485:, pseudonymous reviewer Bail noted that for all of the superficial trendiness of the film's characters and settings, 415: 1580: 973: 1570: 1436: 1412: 1372: 1344: 1314: 1300: 306: 293: 248: 186: 40: 210:. The book has been translated into Korean, German, and English, and a Japanese film adaptation was released by 1161: 1384: 1326: 1099: 334: 301: 198: 88: 1467: 263:"tries to look ironic and sophisticated, but barely manages to conceal its crude apologia for affluence". 1035: 932: 207: 78: 1181:
Smith, Christopher (2020). "Somehow, Dialogic: The Dialogic Self and the Rejection of the Modern in
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Perkins, Chris (2022). "Murakami's Strange Library". In Crawford, Alice; Crawford, Robert (eds.).
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Seeking to write a novel that engaged the immediate material concerns of his own generation,
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Literary scholars writing well after the publication of the book have focused on the
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Ota, Satoshi (2015). "The witches of Tokyo: An investigation in the bimajyo trend".
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Tsunoda, Waka (1988). "The Influx of English in Japanese Language and Literature".
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Yamada, Marc (2013). "The Database Imagination of Japanese Postmodern Culture".
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Stalker, Nancy (2018). ""Cool" Japan as Cultural Superpower (1980s–2010s)".
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Bail (October 13, 1982). "Nantonaku, Kurisutaru (Somehow, Crystal)".
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Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: A Transdisciplinary Perspective
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Scholars and critics have focused on the role of the annotations in
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in book format. In contrast to the version previously printed in
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of the narrative and annotations. Drawing on the writings of
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fictional characters. Academic critics have since identified
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In 2014, Kawade Shobō Shinsha published Tanaka's sequel to
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Index

Book cover of first Japanese edition
Yasuo Tanaka
Postmodern literature
Kawade Shobō Shinsha
Bungei Prize
ISBN
9784909473059
Yasuo Tanaka
Bungei Prize
Akutagawa Prize
Kawade Shobō Shinsha
postmodern literature
Shochiku
Kinokuniya
Daikanyama
Hiroo
Masao Miyoshi
intertextuality
Hiroki Azuma
Norma Field
Yasuo Tanaka
Hitotsubashi University
The Devil's Dictionary
Bungei Prize
Jun Etō
Akutagawa Prize
Kawade Shobō Shinsha
Author Yasuo Tanaka in 2014, wearing a suit, standing with hands behind back
Haruki Murakami
Bungei Shunjū

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