Abstract
Today, a “rich life” is often associated with a “busy life.” It is because being busy is a means to have enough income through work and enough leisure time through consumption of goods and services. Interestingly, in the era where a busy life is taken for granted, contemporary Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has achieved a global popularity by describing protagonists who are not busy. Murakami’s protagonists commonly work from home and spend decent time for cooking and housework. This paper, focusing on the way they spend time in everyday life, aims to discuss how the peculiarity of their life style reflects the author’s observation of a capitalist society.
