7/8/2023 0 Comments The strange library haruki![]() ![]() Yet, in that novel I found a beautiful tale that was mysterious and moving, if not quite as surreal or witty as Murakami’s earlier endeavors. I picked up Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage with some uncertainty after having read a review here at PopMatters. True, Kafka on the Shore seemed to lack affect, and when IQ84 started to feel more like a test of endurance than a literary sojourn, I put it down. Like many, I first fell in love with Murakami’s work when reading novels such as Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and I can remember embarrassing myself more than once laughing out loud while reading A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance in the coffee shop of my local bookstore. Besides, in the case of Haruki Murakami, I hardly felt like I needed an introduction. I like to come to terms with a book’s themes and techniques on my own, without someone else pointing the way. 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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