Murakami: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Invitation to view

[David Morris]

My main problem is the tangential throwaway metaphysics. They are either
silly and shallow or lead nowhere.  I've wondered if maybe it's due to my
lack of Japanese cultural background.  If so, his archetypes are extremely
parochial.  And the stories without them aren't compelling.

David

On Friday, October 9, 2015, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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