/lit/ - Literature

pictures that have the dreamy aesthetic of a Haruki Murakami Novel.

I liked Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood. What next?

Okay I'm only going to read ONE (1) Murakami novel, is it going to be 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore, Wind up Bird Chronicle, or Norwegian wood. What you say /lit/ ?

Why do girls love this hack's books so much?

Redpill me on Murakami. Literary genius or one-trick pony?

Some other common themes are initiation, loss in the contemporary world, the nature of home, and representations of history. As a whole, what Murakami excels at is probing into the all-pervading unconscious global environment of the modern world, which is why going *underground* is such a common motif in his books. No other contemporary artist or writer is as perceptive as Murakami is, he's at least 50 years ahead of everyone else.