the irruption of the impossible

It uses the principle that presided over the construction of a previous novel, "The Ballad of the impossible" by conducting two parallel stories, from no apparent common and which will gradually lead to the construction of a large and complex puzzle that takes a global sense.

This novel also reminds moon of the first works by Murakami, "The race for the black sheep" puisquune much of the story takes place on one of the small archipelago of islands, mountainous and forested moon in which a cabin is located isolated as létait home from previous novel. We find this détrangeté atmosphere of threat solitude, silence broken by the many dune rustling alarming and immediate in nature.

There are two ways daborder Murakami and especially this critical novel. The first approach is based on a Cartesian rational, on a search for meaning at all costs. The other is to go with a story that borrows from many influences of the author whose culture is deeply Japanese but is based on a mastery of classical Greek and tragedy. A culture nourished by solid knowledge of contemporary American authors (Murakami is, among others, Carver translator) and Western philosophy.

The first is almost automatically condemned to fail because it mutilate LOEUVRE. The second opens infinite perspectives if we let ourselves go through poetry, fantasy and originality of the story.

"Kafka on the Shore" is primarily a tale of initiation, often at the extreme edges of the fantastic. He plays the permanent confusion between the real, observable, dreams that are part of our lives until sy intervene to transform the psyche that determines us despite ourselves. It is a subtle narrative and dune rare intelligence of the passage of teen world into adulthood, a passage which leaves a bank made relative ease to reach ground where the main thing is up to you, his choices, his meetings and discussion of using that knows lon make. This is also a story about death, omnipresent in our lives, to the point den inevitable sometimes be inhibiting.

For this, Murakami convene two essential characters. Kafka Tamura, a young teenager of fifteen, who sest chose this name demprunt by reference to the infernal machine of Czech author he thinks the prey. A boy struck by the curse of a father who prophetically condemned parricide, the rape of his mother and her sister. A boy who finds a temporary peace in a strange library, hosted by an androgynous cultivated and sensitive and directed by a dune beautiful woman deeply troubling and inaccessible fifties.

Nakata is an old man, slightly stupid, who makes a living by finding lost cats of a district of Tokyo. A kind of wise condemned to kill him despite a demon who borrows holding Johnny Walken, the emblem of the famous whiskey brand, because he brutally murdered cats which he cut the heads to steal their souls to form a flute with super powers . A man who goes away in spite of himself by embarking in its wake a road but a bit naive who discovers that life is full of surprises and beauty so lon knows pick.

Kafka and Nakata have much in common without knowing Mon life inexorably affect that of the other.
So let yourself be carried by lirruption of the impossible, for these leeches rain or fish that are triggered whenever the old man takes a step that leads to freedom. At the end of the story, you will find your own truth because Murakami never gives his perspective and leaves it to his readers the meaning of sautodéterminer.

Published by Editions Belfond 2006 619 pages

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