New Murakami

[Joe Allonby]

I loved Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Hard-Boiled seemed more like Half-Baked to
me. Kafka on the Shore is now one of my favorite books.

You can analyze this to death, but I instantly found a similarity to
Pynchon. It's a gut thing. The Kano sisters, May Kasuhara,the elderly
psychic soldier, the "healing" from the facial mark, the missing cat ; all
of these elements og WUBC rang bells for me. Kafka on the Shore blew my
mind. I loved it.

On 6/26/06, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> 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
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