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Don’t know if I understand it, but the journey is as interesting as the destination in reading this book. I particularly like Nataka and his way of talking (“Eel is one of Nataka’s favorites”) and Hoshino, an everyman type who certainly goes through as much transformation in his life as Kafka, even if you just count appreciating Beethoven and don’t consider being able to talk to cats. I also like that the two facilitator characters in the book, Hoshino and Oshima, are so very different, Hoshino
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I have wondered many a times what a potrait should be like. I mean, I can potray anybody in colours or words, but can I be that anybody. I think this thought must have lingered along those 200+ pages.
What Kafka, as a posthumously celebrated writer, lacked was that poetry, No! it is not poetry, but the CURVE as people say. Whereas, Murakami with the Majestic backing of Japanese literature tradition (who can forget Mishima and Others) and sheer talent successfully and delibrately (though with a ti ...more
What Kafka, as a posthumously celebrated writer, lacked was that poetry, No! it is not poetry, but the CURVE as people say. Whereas, Murakami with the Majestic backing of Japanese literature tradition (who can forget Mishima and Others) and sheer talent successfully and delibrately (though with a ti ...more
Read on the train from Osaka to Kyoto.
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