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In “The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection”, it is hard not to read “It’s true that life brings us far more defeats than victories” as merely trite. The conversational style can be slack and cliched, speckled with reflections on philosophical questions about ageing, identity, memory and what it is to know oneself. The playfulness with the identity of the narrator might be more rewarding, were it not for the stretches of tepid, underpowered writing. Even so, the women in this book are remarkably less complex, less individual, than the men, existing primarily as a pretext for the male characters to find out, or fail to find out, about themselves. Murakami, by his own account, is less interested in creating complex characters than in the interaction his characters have with the world in which he imagines them. Only one narrator is given a name: “Haruki Murakami”. 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