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The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
In an \"other world\" composed of language-it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest-a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts-people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking machines that traverse the dark psychic underworld of this writer's extraordinary fiction.
Fervently acclaimed worldwide, Murakami's wildly imaginative work in many ways remains a mystery, its worlds within worlds uncharted territory. Finally in this book readers will find a map to the strange realm that grounds virtually every aspect of Murakami's writing. A journey through the enigmatic and baffling innermost mind, a metaphysical dimension where Murakami's most bizarre scenes and characters lurk,The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakamiexposes the psychological and mythological underpinnings of this other world. Matthew Carl Strecher shows how these considerations color Murakami's depictions of the individual and collective soul, which constantly shift between the tangible and intangible but in this literary landscape are undeniably real.
Through these otherworldly depthsThe Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakamialso charts the writer's vivid \"inner world,\" whether unconscious or underworld (what some Japanese critics callachiragawa, or \"over there\"), and its connectivity to language. Strecher covers all of Murakami's work-including his efforts as a literary journalist-and concludes with the first full-length close reading of the writer's newest novel,Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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The forbidden worlds of Haruki Murakami
\" In an \"other world\" composed of language--it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest--a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts--people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking machines that traverse the dark psychic underworld of this writer's extraordinary fiction. Fervently acclaimed worldwide, Murakami's wildly imaginative work in many ways remains a mystery, its worlds within worlds uncharted territory. Finally in this book readers will find a map to the strange realm that grounds virtually every aspect of Murakami's writing. A journey through the enigmatic and baffling innermost mind, a metaphysical dimension where Murakami's most bizarre scenes and characters lurk, The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami exposes the psychological and mythological underpinnings of this other world. Matthew Carl Strecher shows how these considerations color Murakami's depictions of the individual and collective soul, which constantly shift between the tangible and intangible but in this literary landscape are undeniably real. Through these otherworldly depths The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami also charts the writer's vivid \"inner world,\" whether unconscious or underworld (what some Japanese critics call achiragawa, or \"over there\"), and its connectivity to language. Strecher covers all of Murakami's work--including his efforts as a literary journalist--and concludes with the first full-length close reading of the writer's newest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ontology on the Shore: Murakami, Heidegger, and Narrative Confusion in Kafka on the Shore
This essay examines narrative confusion in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore; it uses several ideas from Martin Heidegger's Being and Time to examine the ontological angst surrounding the novel's representation of selfhood and being.
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What is or was Postmodern Fiction? Murakami after Borges
If Haruki Murakami’s fictions are symptomatic of what has happened to the (Jamesian) notion of a “central intelligence” as necessary to the novel, they present a new level of postmodernist “blank pastiche” and require new reading habits. While Jorge Luis Borges’s characters often offer literary/philosophical explanations of post-modernity’s break with the traditional reader’s narrative expectations, Murakami succeeds in cyber-spacing and de-centralizing human consciousness. Readers are learning to surf.
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Time and Timelessness: A Study of Narrative Structure in Murakami Haruki's \Kafka on the Shore\
This essay examines narrative structure and themes in Murakami Haruki's Kafka on the Shore, mainly from the standpoint of time. It argues that many of the novel's central ideas, such as growth, recovery from trauma, and the redemptive value of suffering, are explored through the philosophical concept of time.
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Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture
Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this Euro-American theory by looking back on it from the perspective of Japanese literary work.
Presenting outstanding analysis of Japanese intellectuals and writers who have received little attention in the West, the book also includes an extensive and comprehensive bibliography making it essential reading for those studying Japanese literature, Japanese studies and Japanese thinkers.
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