brilliant. It's been a while since I've read any Murukami and I've
been appreciating the familiar feeling of Murakami's storytelling,
like coming back to an old friend who you hadn't realized you'd been
missing. This looks like being up there on my favourite Murukami's
alongside Hard Boiled Wonderland... and Wild Sheep Chase.
I think I'll leave the rest of my thoughts until I've actually
finished it....
For me one of the defining high points of Kafka on the Shore is the ability to slip seamlessly from outward reality to dreamworlds and imagined worlds, from graphic descriptions of accepted norms to less familiar scenes, such as cat decapitation and spewing of monsters from mouths of humans, all related in such a way as if it were all normal and accepted - a superb skill on the part of the storyteller.
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RépondreSupprimerYeah, that's definitely one of the things I appreciate about Murukami. In fact I think this mix of real with surreal or extreme is something in common with a few of my favourite authors. Flann O'Brien and Neil Gaiman to pick two examples. But I also like how Murukami usually gives his central characters the ability to either be completely accepting or alternatively unaware of the strangeness of the situations. Such as Nakata whose not being 'very bright' allows him to accept situations that others would would be 'too clever' to accept as reality.
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