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First Person Singular (other)
First Person Singular may refer to: Literature * First Person Singular (short story collection), ''First Person Singular'' (short story collection), a 2020 short story collection by Haruki Murakami * First Person Singular (play), ''First Person Singular'' (play), a play by Lewis Grant Wallace * "First Person Singular", a short story by Eric Frank Russell published in ''Deep Space (collection), Deep Space'' (1954) Film and television * ''First Person Singular: Pearson – The Memoirs of a Prime Minister'', a 1973–1975 Canadian television miniseries * ''First Person Singular'', the original title of ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' radio series * ''First Person Singular'', a 1969–1975 BBC Scotland interview series presented by Mary Marquis * ''First Person Singular: I. M. Pei'', a 1997 PBS documentary about I. M. Pei See also * First person singular, referring to the grammatical person {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Person Singular (short Story Collection)
is a collection of eight stories by Haruki Murakami. It was first published on 18 July 2020 by Bungeishunjū. As its title suggests, all eight stories in the book are told in a first-person singular narrative. Contents Synopsis "Cream" The first-person narrator accepts a sudden invitation to a piano recital from an old acquaintance. On a Sunday afternoon in November, he travels to the recital hall, located at the top of a mountain in Kobe. When he arrives, the gate is locked and the parking lot empty. No one responds and there seems to be no signs of a recital set to take place. Retiring to a small park nearby, he later meets an old man who implores him to visualize a circle that has many centers but no circumference. The man tells him that when you finally achieve such difficult things as reaching an understanding of something you once couldn't, it becomes the cream of your life, the wikt:crème de la crème, crème de la crème. The narrator closes his eyes once again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |