Tosh's review
Underground
by Haruki Murakami
Tosh's review
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Tosh's review
rating:
I know the subway line in Tokyo that the AUM attacked very well. It goes through the 'posh' or expensive areas of Tokyo - as well as some leading tourist sites - the Ginza, Roppongi. Then the unthinkable happened - especially in Tokyo. The gas attack.
Murakami and an assistant interviewed everyone who was on that train line that morning - so the reader gets slightly different versions what happened on the subway line. All the victims talk about their bad health after-affects of course, but what is interesting is how they slightly see things differently from each other.
Reading this sort of reminds me of Raymond Queneau's "Exercise in Style" where you get the same narrative, but each chapter is told and written differently. The results are the same - terror and pain. But each one went on a slightly different route to that horror.
As far as I know this is the only non-fiction book by Murakami. One wonders how this work may have influenced his later writing?
Murakami and an assistant interviewed everyone who was on that train line that morning - so the reader gets slightly different versions what happened on the subway line. All the victims talk about their bad health after-affects of course, but what is interesting is how they slightly see things differently from each other.
Reading this sort of reminds me of Raymond Queneau's "Exercise in Style" where you get the same narrative, but each chapter is told and written differently. The results are the same - terror and pain. But each one went on a slightly different route to that horror.
As far as I know this is the only non-fiction book by Murakami. One wonders how this work may have influenced his later writing?
