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Dania Faruqui asked this question about Men Without Women:
What is wrong with Habara in the story "Scheherazade" ? Why can't he move put of his house? Is he some kind of prisoner and is the profession of the women legal in Japan?
Caterina Alvarez Fagelson I read Habara’s unknown handicap as the answer to the original “One Thousand and One Nights” main character’s handicap - jealousy. In the original sto…moreI read Habara’s unknown handicap as the answer to the original “One Thousand and One Nights” main character’s handicap - jealousy. In the original story the Sasanian king finds out his wife has been unfaithful and has her killed. I think this story’s upfront admission to a relationship with that folktale allows us to assume Habara shares a equally debilitating problem although it’s not entirely similar. He does little to keep his Sheherezade coming back but he cherishes her stories as a life source and his only viable view into the obscure, a world he wishes to penetrate more deeply.(less)
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Men Without Women
by Haruki Murakami
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