/lit/ - Literature

>>2545016
It's mostly in the last third of the book.

>[...]the simple fact of nature's workings, that the female sex, because it is female, nobody dares to say it in so many words nowadays, that the female sex is anti-intellectual and emotionally predisposed to champion emotion, that it is in fact against intellect in all its possible aspects just as it is emotionally predisposed to emotion in all its possible aspects [...] I personally know from experience, so Roithamer, that the female human being, "female human being" underlined, is that the female sex is incapable of going beyond the first impulse in the direction of the life of the mind.

Yeah he starts by talking about his mom; but it's pretty apparent at a certain point, when he's not lamenting the Austrian drive to self-negation, that Roithamer isn't talking about just her anymore.

Worst Murakami I've read by a large margin, and I've read more than two other books by him. If it's your first book by him I entreat you to read Wind-Up Bird or Hard-Boiled Wonderland.

Otherwise enjoy your meandering, concurrent stories.