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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
The link that I see to Kafka is the blending of the surreal with the real. Also how many Murakami and Kafka stories seem like the literary equivalent of an abstract painting. It is up to each reader [the viewer] to find there own individual meaning. Just as an example I see this in Landscape with Flatiron by Murakami and Conversation with the Supplicant by Kafka. |
Yes, I see what you mean. I find it more obvious though in his "Kafka on the shore"(where fish rains from the sky), than in the stories of 'After the quake".
Murakami has a way of weaving the surreal into the real without the reader realizing that it is so; in the beginning that is. In most of his novels he is rather subtle about it.