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I just finished the english translation of pic related yesterday. Really enjoyed it, thoughts? discussion? I feel like I should probably read it again soon to try and meditate on some of the more complicated/inscrutable elements of the story. Like what's up with the teacher's sex dream and her subsequent period? What is the village over the mountain? Is johnnie walker actually kafka's dad?

Anyways, good book. I like how seamlessly it blends plot and philosophy

>> No.11370466

Good Murakami but not the best Murakami.
Really comfy and enjoyable, and the magic realism was well-executed as always.
Also the incest was hot as fuck.

>> No.11370485

Nakata isn't very bright.

>> No.11370516

>>11369533

Loved it. I just finished Hard-Boiled today for the second time.

I think that the village over the mountain (if that is the one where he goes from the cottage--it's been a while) is a metaphor for trying to heal from trauma. The whole storm that the book begins and finishes with is the storm of Kafka's psychoanalytical probing and healing. Entering the village is metaphorical for trying to grasp your consciousness at it's core, and in understanding what is at work, helping you to repair yourself. He is very damaged from his mother and sister leaving, and his relationship with his dad also. While the way this is depicted is highly surreal, I think it is generally the message of the book. There are many more details that I'm not remembering right now, but I do remember that being my take away, and then reading some criticism that read it similarly.

>> No.11370816

>>11370516
>Entering the village is metaphorical for trying to grasp your consciousness at it's core

this would make sense, especially aligning with when he speaks with oshima's brother at the end who's the only other person in the "real world" who's experienced the village and returned...and neither of them are able to nor try to attempt describing it in words. very apt for reckoning with those very deepest parts of consciousness that go beyond language

>> No.11370825

>>11369533
is OP's name Faizan?

>> No.11370848

I started this book yesterday. Hopefully this thread will stay open when i finish it
>tfw no hot as fuck philosophy undergrad will explain hegel to you while giving you head.

>> No.11370948

>>11370485
nyan nyan

>> No.11371208

>>11370825
nope, i'll still be your friend though anon

>> No.11371295

I love Murakami, but this book made absolutely zero sense to me. It was a fun ride, but the ending is too all over the place to be interesting.

Hard boiled Wonderland and the end of the world is far better. Still maintains the same sense of magic realism while being far more understandable and finite.

>> No.11371303

Murakami sucks ass. Only people under the age of 25 could appreciate his abysmal prose.

>> No.11371320
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>>11371303
M-muh prose!

>> No.11371347

>>11369533
My introduction to Murakami (and Jap lit in general.) Really interesting concept, been wanting to write something like it for years now, but with more of a fantasy influence. Think Spirited Away meets Murakami meets sci-fi pirates.

>> No.11371370

>>11371320
M-muh tortured male teen fucks ghost chicks