What then striking is Haruki Murakami's ability to make us feel the events it describes. His stripped fluid writing and lets go to the heart of the action and capture the strong emotions of the different characters. Whether sadness, erotic excitement or suspense, readers lives by that time organically living beings of this novel. As one character: "The most important for us is that everyone is allowed to absorb through life."
This novel invites introspection: "Often when you put your foot in an outdoor labyrinth is that as you go into an inner labyrinth." This metaphor connects both types of journey being done by the two central characters in this novel: the geographical journey (running away for Kafka, a first trip outside his city to the old Nakata following the murder of the artist) and the inner path (freedom from paternal terrible prediction for Kafka, filling the void that inhabits Nakata and allowing others to do what they want it). Both courses run parallel, first seemingly unrelated and interrelationships are becoming more numerous. And since everything is connected in Murakami, who led one of his characters as "the logic, morality or meaning have no existence as such, but born of interrelations" other worlds meet in this novel (the border between the real and the supernatural is suppressed, the characters of the past alongside those of the present, cats can communicate with certain characters, etc.).
Roman metaphorical and spooky, "Kafka on the Shore" can unseat the rational player. In addition to blithely mixing genres as well as real and supernatural worlds, it raises many assumptions to which no clear answer is given. No doubt an invitation to explore different worlds of which we have not yet found the front door.
