New Murakami

[bekah]

At 7:11 PM -0400 6/26/06, MalignD at aol.com wrote:
>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.



I can see what you're saying and yes,  there are certainly 
differences, but there are some similarities as well.
It seems  they work with the same sort of things in two very 
different ways.   Fwiw,  Murakami is frequently said to have 
similarities to Borges.   (I thought of it on my own but used some 
googling to see if I was way off base or if others had sensed that.)

Bekah