The theme of "Kafka on the Shore" is to allow soul and dignity to emerge freely through human spiritual growth

"Kafka on the Shore" tells the story of a 15-year-old boy The wandering story records the process of how a soft and unformed soul pursues freedom and growth.

Introduction:

"Kafka on the Shore" is a novel by Haruki Murakami, published in 2003. The main content is about the growth history of the protagonist Kafka.

The text of "Kafka on the Shore" continues Haruki Murakami's consistent fictional story settings, but it also profoundly projects the shadow of real society. The plot of "Kafka on the Shore" is divided into two clues. It tells the story of the young Kafka and the old man Nakata who committed murder in the air. Not only was Kafka not punished, but he committed intentional homicide, incest, and rape. Instead, he became "the strongest boy in the world" and Nakata was peacefully relieved.

In 2006, "Kafka on the Shore" won the World Fantasy Awards.

Comments on the work:

"Kafka on the Shore" is both a fantasy fable and a worldly work that faces reality.

"Kafka on the Shore" describes the magical experience of Kafka Tamura, a young man who was cursed by fate, and traveled to a foreign land. The scenes in the novel repeatedly switch between reality and fantasy. With his original logical language, Haruki Murakami destroyed the insurmountable walls between dreams and reality, reality and surreality, this world and the next, and filled the insurmountable gap between the human world and the other world. .

The suspense setting of the novel "Kafka on the Shore" is unique, and the plot unfolds unexpectedly. It is condensed and compact, and is full of traction that entices readers to read the entire novel in one go. Dreams have a metaphorical meaning in this novel, creating a whole set of independent logical discourse. The character creation is also distinctive, mysterious and full of modernity and symbolism.

--People's Daily Online

The situations in the stories are philosophical and speculative. The locations where the stories often take place are stations, libraries, single families, or wilderness. , these are places where it is extremely easy for a single individual to have meditation or even fantasy. These meditations and fantasies lay a thick layer of academic fog for the unfolding of the plot. After enjoying the excitement in the fog, the readers have to go back. Go to the story itself to explore the truth, and the truth is extremely simple and clear. A mocking smile of fate or an unexpected identity of the character will reveal the mystery in a panic.

--Sohu.com

About the author:

Haruki Murakami was born in January 1949. He graduated from the Faculty of Literature of Waseda University and is a Japanese novelist. In 1979, he won the Group New Humanities Award for his debut novel "Hear the Wind Sing". In 1987, his fifth novel "Norwegian Wood" sold 4 million copies in Japan, widely causing the "Murakami phenomenon". Haruki Murakami's works show a light tone of writing style that is deeply influenced by European and American writers, and rarely have the gloomy and heavy writing atmosphere of Japan after the war. Therefore, he is called the first pure "writer of the post-World War II period" and is also known as the "Japanese Literary standard-bearer of the 1980s". His representative works include "Norwegian Wood", "Kafka on the Shore", "The Journey of Strange Birds", "The Adventure of Sheep", "Sputnik Lovers", "Hear the Wind Sing", etc.