Talk:The Elephant Vanishes

The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women
I know it's an alternate translation and all but does anyone know why the cat's name is Noboru Wataya in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but Noboru Watanabe in this version of the chapter? Basically I'm wondering if the two versions were translated from different sources. --User.lain 05:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

The short story was only a concept from which the actual novel was born. Or so I've read in an interview somewhere. Anyway, the cat *is* called Noboru Watanabe in the original short story as well, so there are two different sources, as you guessed. Btw, the Japanese short story collection this story was published in has a Noboru Watanabe as a fringe character in every story for some reason - c.f. the elephant keeper in The Elephant Vanishes... 213.172.234.227 14:42, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Stage Adaptation
I'd like to add to this article a section about the stage adaptation produced by Complicite and the Setagaya Public Theatre, which I was fortunate enough to see at the 2004 Lincoln Center Festival. Perhaps, as an adaptation to a different medium, the play ultimately belongs in a separate article from the short story collection; but I feel like right now this primary article is short enough that it has room for both.

76.168.253.250 23:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)Frank

Story Titles in Quotation Marks
I'm going to go ahead and edit the list of the book's contents so that the individual short story titles appear in quotation marks rather than italics. I think this is generally more in keeping with most Manuals of Style. I also think that it will be clearer here specifically because it will help distinguish the short stories (on the one side of the list) from the larger publications in which they have appeared (on the other side). Finally, this formatting is reflected in other Wikipedia articles on short story collections, such as the one on Nine Stories (Salinger). 76.168.253.250 21:21, 16 January 2007 (UTC)Frank

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:40, 13 February 2008 (UTC)