Exploring Hear the Wind Sing as an Initial Story: Encounter with Derek Heartfield as the Starting Point for Haruki Murakami
摘要
In this chapter, I considered the meaning of Hear the Wind Sing from the perspective of understanding it as Murakami’s initial story and discussed Murakami’s creative process from the perspective of Jungian psychology and psychotherapy. I focused on the fictional writer Derek Heartfield who appears throughout the novel, and argued that the worldview presented in the short story by Heartfield has something to do with Murakami’s own beginnings as a writer. In my opinion, having met Derek Heartfield within himself, Murakami began to create stories for his own salvation. Murakami acknowledges Hear the Wind Sing as his initial work when, at the very beginning, he declares that he will open his closed mouth to tell his story.