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Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.
If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. --Simon Leake, Amazon.com -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.
If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. --Simon Leake -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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And the translation is great!
What was most fascinating is the elements of Buddhism, the search for nothingness to really get in touch with one's consciousness. Okada finds the strength and ability to achieve 'emptiness' at the bottom of a dark well. In the well, the author puts us in touch with the most bizarre adventures in Okada's consciousness.
This is the first time I have read a book by a Japanese author. Just as each culture has their own unique style of writing (the Russians with their incredibly complex characters) this Japanese author had a wonderful surreal simplicity to the writing that made you want to never put the book down. I highly recommend the book - it is incredibly easy to read, but so complex in thought. I have every intention of reading more of Murakami!
What is going on in our mind is part of the collective (un-)consciousness. That is what we are experiencing also with Cybersex and Internet-Chat: having sensations and emotions, being close to totally unknown persons only through the power of our own imagination, not thinking how dangerous this instantaneous vicinity can be for our mind and soul. Murakami tells us in his (innocent ?) thrilling way of some secrets of (Jungian) psychology which are still not understood by most of us - i really wonder how much aware he is about what he is writing. At least it seems that he has gone through everything he writes (like in "Norweggian wood" too). Murakami teaches us into which direction the human mind is going, how we are strongly connected to certain persons, mostly without knowing it. And, just by the way, he shows us also how one can remain a nice guy with all these mental atrocities attacking us. For most his books are kind of fantastic, maybe curious. But (not so?) few of us are experiencing these mind-problems already. What takes place in our mind IS real or at least ONE reality which is not always connected with outside-reality but which we cannot ignore much longer. Unnecessary to say that he is one of the very few contemporary authors i admire.
i have read other murakami novels and esp liked "dance, dance, dance", which is fab, surprising and full of energy... Lesen Sie weiter...
Although I'm only 13, I can read this novel without difficulties. Lesen Sie weiter...
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