What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
January 30th, 2010
I have a handful of friends that run. As I’m not a runner myself, I was interested in knowing what drives someone to do such a thing. So I decided to read Haruki Murakami‘s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. It also helps that I love this author’s contemporary fiction and that Chip Kidd designed the hardcover book.
I completed the memoir with a better understanding of the training that goes into running a marathon (or triathlon) and that the process can be quite painful on the body. But running gives Murakami time to think, time to himself, and a place where there is no need to compete with anyone but himself.
I was disappointed that the writing style was so simplistic when compared to his novels, but it is a memoir and was translated (like most of his work) from Japanese. Maybe Murakami wanted to keep it simple. Or maybe the translator chose this route. Either way, I’ve gained an admiration for the sport of running.
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