Murakami: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Invitation to view

[David Kilroy]

My main argument against the Chronicle is the cast.  I find them all very
difficult to engage with, unlike most other Murakmi I've read.  I realize
this is more to do with the culture, set & setting, than anything else.  I
exist in a culture actively estranging itself so a story about coming to
terms with alienation has to have some emotional texture, some rock in the
stream with an irregular surface for me to cling to.

Contrariwise, my favorite character in WUBC-- that is, the most clearly
embedded in my memory --is Noboru Wataya.  It's his cipherlike nature as an
antagonist.  He's a cloudy diamond, of the same water as Brock Vond or
Windust.  Could be I'm just a sucker for ambivalent villainy.  Could be
that's why I haven't absquatulated from Amerika already...
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