(UNICAMP - 2017 - 1ª fase)
The Birth of My Kitchen-Table Fiction
By Haruki Murakami
Most people – most of us who are part of Japanese society – graduate from school, then find work, then, after some time has passed, get married. Even I originally intended to follow that pattern. Yet in reality I married, then started working, then finally managed to graduate. In other words, the order I chose was the exact opposite to what was considered normal.
Since I hated the idea of working for a company, I decided to open my own establishment, a place where people could go to listen to jazz records, have a coffee, eat snacks and drink. It was a simple, rather happy-go-lucky kind of idea: running a business like that would let me relax listening to my favorite music from morning till night.
(Adaptado de H. Murakami, Wind and Pimbal – Two Novels. Tradução do japonês para o inglês de Ted Goossen. London: Penguin Random House, 2015, p.5.)
O autor do texto
fez o que era normal para os jovens japoneses na época, abrindo uma loja de discos.
fez o que era normal para os jovens japoneses, mas em uma ordem totalmente diferente.
queria viver feliz ouvindo música o dia todo, sem trabalhar.
queria ganhar dinheiro trabalhando só com música e viver feliz.