The Strange Library: Haruki Murakami

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absurdity and irrationality, the tension between the fantastical and the everyday, real and unreal, sadness and loss, then sudden shifts out of the blue, and plenty of the plain runic. For better or for worse, I rarely bother reading the publisher’s introduction that sometimes accompanies a review copy of a book.

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Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. En numeradas ocasiones —cuando iniciamos una historia—, al principio no nos parece tan interesante la idea presentada, pero, a medida que avanzas, y vas sumergiéndote en el argumento, empiezas a anhelar seguir leyendo para esperar ese «algo más» que te haga sentir que ha valido la pena aguardar hasta el final. Creí que el argumento tendría más desarrollo, o qué por lo menos ocurrirían más acontecimientos o aventuras, pero desafortunadamente todo terminó con un inexplicable «Fin» que me dejó muy descontento y amargado. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Once inside, he entered the realm of a Sheepman who loves to make donuts, magical starlings , a crazy man who loves to eat creamy brains, and a mystical, wisp of a girl.Full-page designs from Chip Kidd divide the sections, bolstering the book’s otherworldliness with images from the text alongside mazelike designs and dizzying close-ups of painted faces. The Murakamiverse, with its spatial, temporal, and geographic restriction of recognizable tropes to an intellectual property originating from one source, has more in common with the contained and idiosyncratic ctional universes of Marvel or DC than it does with the arbitrary benchmarks of a national literary tradition. From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. The overall effect leaves you scratching your head and wondering whether some publicity material might have been helpful, after all.

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I can feel the fear, the uncertainty, the relationship with the strangeness of reality, the unexpected inevitable turn of events and some memories that would never leave. However, Kafka was the strongest parallel for me: surreal, incomprehensible situation, unfair punishment without recourse to defence, and sustenance (food, flirting and, in Kafka, more) from a woman who may or may not be real. The illustrations differ in the various editions, as the US, UK, and German publishers all opted for their own versions rather than using the Sasaki Maki illustrations from the Japanese. Haruki Murakami has a fascinating ability to break open the natural world and let loose all the magic that we hope and suspect is lurking right under the surface.While reading, I was waiting for any of the characters to utter endearing lines like those spoken by the Little Prince or the fox in St. Designed by Chip Kidd, nearly every other page contains a beautiful image, often an abstract representation of what is happening to the narrator.