Like Joseph K in The Trial, the hero of the book Murakami is the victim of a mysterious plot that will push him to flee and take refuge in a library, instead referring to Borges. Haruki Murakami offers us a dark and disturbing book, whose oppressive atmosphere, almost paranoid fantasy slips in surreal happily. Demonstrating scholarship without ever being pedantic, the author constructs a work shaped maze, with hints of ancient tragedy, which should delight fans of Asian literature. Incidentally, it addresses a fundamental question to be addressed primarily to the victims of many abuses that our contemporary world creates: how to continue to live when all our benchmarks are shattered?
