#636
Title: Kafka on the Shore
Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2002/2006
467 pages
Title: Kafka on the Shore
Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2002/2006
467 pages
Audiobook
"Symbolism and meaning are two separate things." --Ms. Saeki
That pretty much sums it up. In the last 600+ books I've rarely stopped so frequently (which in the case of an audiobook means not only stop reading, but sometimes stop walking) to write notes about the book, but is there an ultimate thematic message? Maybe, maybe not. The story creeps back into its symbolic/mythic/thinning between universes hole and that is that. The resolution is more symbolic than at the plot level. Moving far beyond magical realism into frank Jungian/fantasy/spiritual slippage, this is a novel that is more alien to Western thinking than it might first seem. This includes how easily the characters accept the permeability of their reality, and their fatalistic understanding that they may not understand, and will not understand, what they participated in or what processes made use of them for a while. It's a clever, fun, engaging novel, read well by Sean Barrett and Oliver Le Sueur.
"Symbolism and meaning are two separate things." --Ms. Saeki
That pretty much sums it up. In the last 600+ books I've rarely stopped so frequently (which in the case of an audiobook means not only stop reading, but sometimes stop walking) to write notes about the book, but is there an ultimate thematic message? Maybe, maybe not. The story creeps back into its symbolic/mythic/thinning between universes hole and that is that. The resolution is more symbolic than at the plot level. Moving far beyond magical realism into frank Jungian/fantasy/spiritual slippage, this is a novel that is more alien to Western thinking than it might first seem. This includes how easily the characters accept the permeability of their reality, and their fatalistic understanding that they may not understand, and will not understand, what they participated in or what processes made use of them for a while. It's a clever, fun, engaging novel, read well by Sean Barrett and Oliver Le Sueur.
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