Satoru nakata kafka on the shore5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Kafka relates his adventures in chapters that alternate with another story, that of Satoru Nakata, an elderly man. Kafka is fleeing his father, a man whose shadowy malevolence takes the form of an Oedipal prophecy: Kafka, he insists, will kill his father and sleep with his mother and his older sister, both of whom vanished when the boy was 4. ![]() ![]() This time, Murakami's hero, a runaway boy calling himself Kafka Tamura, is only 15. Most of his protagonists have been men in their 30's, easygoing solitary types with spotty romantic histories and a taste for jazz, whiskey and American films. Murakami's latest, "Kafka on the Shore," is no exception, although it is a departure for this Japanese novelist in other ways. ![]() Yet the undercurrent is nearly irresistible, and readers emerge several hundred pages later as if from a trance, convinced they've made contact with something significant, if not entirely sure what that something is. His narrators tend to be a bit passive, and the stakes in many of his shaggy-dog plots remain obscure. His novels - in America, the best known is probably "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" - lack the usual devices of suspense. It is easier to be bewitched by Haruki Murakami's fiction than to figure out how he accomplishes the bewitchment. ![]()
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