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Originally Posted by Geralt
I regard fantasy as part of speculative fiction. SF and horror are also part of this. Contemporary fiction isn't part of it. Murakami is contemporary writer, not a fantasy one.
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Fair enough.
Although most definitions of "contemporary fiction" I've seen, specify that it usually doesn't bring any "elements of fantasy." Which in my opinion, would then bar much of Murakami's work (and any magical-realism) from being called contemporary fiction. But there's always border-straddling, genre-bending exceptions that could be argued back and forth indefinitely. And in the end, they're just labels that everyone adjusts occasionally to suit their own personal interpretations anyway. *shrugs*