![]() The Kafka in this novel is a 15 year old boy who has adopted that name and run away from home. This allows us to give in to whatever wackiness shows up throughout an otherwise stoic story. ![]() He does not take himself or his works seriously and the reader is better for it. Kafka On the Shore involves all of these themes and states upfront that it is a metaphysical metaphor. However, Murakami is such a good writer that they somehow don’t all blend together. These specific themes, as well as a few more like baseball, pop up all over his library of works. They’re magical realism hero’s journeys, involve metaphors, involve a young man having a physical relationship with an older woman, play classical music sometimes as a plot point, and possibly involve cats. Fans of Murakami know by now that many of his books are essentially the same book. ![]()
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