5/12/2023 0 Comments Men and women murakami![]() 2011’s 1Q84 was the culmination of all these ideas, and it was an (ultimately under-edited) effort by the author to get it all on paper at the cost of however many necessary pages. ![]() While each new book provides a fresh new system of imaginative plots and compelling new characters, they thematically share the same binding, composed and gelled by the same abstraction. ![]() One could cheekily make a bingo card ( some fans already have ) of his recurring motifs, with things like talking cats, mysterious wells, urban malaise, jazz bands and audiophile stereo systems joining the more abstract ideas of alternate universes and parallax (an astronomical term for a perceived shift in position when viewing the same object from different angles). With each new novel he transports his readers through the the same mirror into a realm of gentle magical realism, to parallel worlds that exist in the soft places between reality and wherever it is that Murakami’s dreams crystallize. ![]() Perhaps Haruki Murakami’s greatest strength is his familiarity. ![]()
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