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"In an "other world" composed of language--it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest--a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts--people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking machines that traverse the dark psychic underworld of this writer's extraordinary fiction. Fervently acclaimed worldwide, Murakami's wildly imaginative work in many ways remains a mystery, its worlds within worlds uncharted territory. Finally in this book readers will find a map to the strange realm that grounds virtually every aspect of Murakami's writing. A journey through the enigmatic and baffling innermost mind, a metaphysical dimension where Murakami's most bizarre scenes and characters lurk, The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami exposes the psychological and mythological underpinnings of this other world. Matthew Carl Strecher shows how these considerations color Murakami's depictions of the individual and collective soul, which constantly shift between the tangible and intangible but in this literary landscape are undeniably real. Through these otherworldly depths The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami also charts the writer's vivid "inner world," whether unconscious or underworld (what some Japanese critics call achiragawa, or "over there"), and its connectivity to language. Strecher covers all of Murakami's work--including his efforts as a literary journalist--and concludes with the first full-length close reading of the writer's newest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage."--

Murakami, Haruki, --- Cunshang, Chunshu, --- Murakami, Kharuki, --- Мураками, Харуки, --- מורקמי, הרוקי, --- 村上春樹 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- J5931 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Murakami, Haruki

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Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers (David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Jose Saramago). The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory the archive becomes a central trope here and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami) becomes the means by which the self attempts to pr

Melancholy in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Auster, Paul, --- Saramago, José --- Mitchell, David --- Murakami, Haruki, --- Cunshang, Chunshu, --- Murakami, Kharuki, --- Мураками, Харуки, --- מורקמי, הרוקי, --- 村上春樹 --- Auster, Paul --- אוסטר, פול, --- 奥斯特, --- Benjamin, Paul, --- Mitchell, David Stephen --- Salamage, Ruoze --- Saramago, Zhoze --- Сарамаго, Жозе --- סאראמאגו, ז׳וזה --- סאראמאגו, ז׳וזה. טבעון, מרים --- Sousa Saramago, José de --- De Sousa Saramago, José --- ジョゼ・サラマーゴ --- Criticism and interpretation.