New Murakami

[MalignD at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/26/06 6:53:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net writes:

<< The surrealist, alternative realities,  part.    In Kafka,  there's a 
story about fish falling from the sky and dual personalities (or something)   And 
in Wind-Up Bird I think the war episode in China was kind of surreal.     In 
Borges' Ficciones  try  "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (a fave),  "The Garden of 
Forking Paths,"  or any of them really. >>

Borges is rigorous, structured, intellectual, ironical.  Murakami is 
free-roaming, instinctual, sensual.  I see no correspondence.