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Kafka sur le rivage by Haruki Murakami
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Kafka sur le rivage (original 2002; edition 2005)

by Haruki Murakami, Haruki Murakami (Auteur), Corinne Atlan (Traduction)

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A tour-de-force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters. At fifteen, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister. And the aging Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction, finds his highly simplified life suddenly upset. Their odyssey, as mysterious to us as it is to them, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle. Yet this, like everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.… (more)
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Title:Kafka sur le rivage
Authors:Haruki Murakami
Other authors:Haruki Murakami (Auteur), Corinne Atlan (Traduction)
Info:Belfond (2005), Broché, 618 pages
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Rating:*****
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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002)

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"Tutti perdiamo continuamente tante cose importanti. Occasioni preziose, possibilità, emozioni irripetibili. Vivere significa anche questo. Ma ognuno di noi nella propria testa ha una piccola stanza dove può conservare tutte queste cose in forma di ricordi. Un po' come le sale di una biblioteca, con tanti scaffali. E per poterci orientare con sicurezza nel nostro spirito, dobbiamo tenere in ordine l'archivio di quella stanza: continuare a redigere schede, fare pulizie, rinfrescare l'aria, cambiare l'acqua ai fiori. In altre parole tu vivrai per sempre nella tua biblioteca personale." ( )
  fabidemar | Dec 26, 2024 |
I don't think Murakami is for me.
Enjoyed Nakata's story.
The reading experience was enjoyable, and I was hooked in by the beginning, but in the end I left feeling no real impression and like I "didn't get it." ( )
  jennyfern | Dec 25, 2024 |
Le livre se lit facilement de par le style, mais les énigmes que laisse l'auteur laissent assez perplexe, et j'avoue ne pas avoir toujours tout compris où il voulait en venir. ( )
  Julien.Halet | Nov 26, 2024 |
Upon now a THIRD READ (Mar-Apr 2020), after that second read (Nov-Dec 2018), this is definitely still a 5*. It's difficult to categorize or even summarize, but the narrative draws one in to itself and makes one think about possibilities.
Come to think of of it, I'd been thinking that this was my FOURTH time reading this.

(First read: Jan.2014?) An extremely interesting read. Not quite sure how to describe it overall, but the idea that the characters can enter into and are part of an alternate reality and timeline gives one cause to really think about what one assumes is really is. I was a bit confused though over the last sequence of Hoshino, the truckdriver. All in all... highly recommended. ( )
  Craig_Evans | Nov 20, 2024 |
This was the first novel by Murakami I've read. The book is what I'd call magic realism if it had been written by a Latin American. Strange and excellent. ( )
  le.vert.galant | Nov 12, 2024 |
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The weird, stately urgency of Murakami's novels comes from their preoccupation with . . . internal problems; you can imagine each as a drama acted out within a single psyche. In each, a self lies in pieces and must be put back together; a life that is stalled must be kick-started and relaunched into the bruising but necessary process of change. Reconciling us to that necessity is something stories have done for humanity since time immemorial. Dreams do it, too. But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.
 
Maar net zoals in de rest van Murakami’s omvangrijke oeuvre blijft het niet bij het wegloop-realisme van de hoofdpersoon. Onverklaarbare wendingen, bovennatuurlijke verschijnselen, irreële toevalligheden en onwaarschijnlijke personages roepen bij de nuchtere lezer al snel de vraag op waarom hij in godsnaam maar blijft dóórlezen.
 
Kafka Tamura se va de casa el día en que cumple quince años. La razón, si es que la hay, son las malas relaciones con su padre, un escultor famoso convencido de que su hijo habrá de repetir el aciago sino del Edipo de la tragedia clásica, y la sensación de vacío producida por la ausencia de su madre y su hermana, a quienes apenas recuerda porque también se marcharon de casa cuando era muy pequeño. El azar, o el destino, le llevarán al sur del país, a Takamatsu, donde encontrará refugio en una peculiar biblioteca y conocerá a una misteriosa mujer mayor, tan mayor que podría ser su madre, llamada Saeki. Si sobre la vida de Kafka se cierne la tragedia –en el sentido clásico–, sobre la de Satoru Nakata ya se ha abatido –en el sentido real–: de niño, durante la segunda guerra mundial, sufrió un extraño accidente que lo marcaría de por vida. En una excursión escolar por el bosque, él y sus compañeros cayeron en coma; pero sólo Nakata salió con secuelas, sumido en una especie de olvido de sí, con dificultades para expresarse y comunicarse... salvo con los gatos. A los sesenta años, pobre y solitario, abandona Tokio tras un oscuro incidente y emprende un viaje que le llevará a la biblioteca de Takamatsu. Vidas y destinos se van entretejiendo en un curso inexorable que no atiende a razones ni voluntades. Pero a veces hasta los oráculos se equivocan.
 
”Et stort verk, men likevel lekende lett lesning.”
 

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A tour-de-force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters. At fifteen, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister. And the aging Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction, finds his highly simplified life suddenly upset. Their odyssey, as mysterious to us as it is to them, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle. Yet this, like everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.

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