![]() The middle-aged-35-year-old protagonist, extremely jaded and cynical, explains to an unnaturally beautiful, clairvoyant, and damaged 13-year-old girl (Yuki) that “ I was a kid. Speaking of love affairs, this is a major theme in Murakami’s Dance Dance Dance. But also satisfaction, for having gained something precious and impossible to replicate. This is simply the power of good fiction and Haruki Murakami delivers it in spades. And you are left with an undeniable sense of loss. You fall in love.īut like most things, it has to end. Soon you even feel empathy – not just a basic understanding of predicaments, but a vital imposition of your self on actions and intentions and finally you are in awe of the writer for opening your mind to existential dimensions that you somehow never considered before. ![]() You trudge through the necessary but tedious paragraphs with honesty. Slowly but surely, without even realizing it, you get intimate with the prose and the characters, despite, nay because of, their flaws. ![]() When you begin, you are tentative / uninvested / and unsure about what is to come but in anticipation (as any good reader should be) of the possibilities. As long as the music plays.” Sourceįinishing a great novel always leaves me excited and melancholic in equal parts. ![]()
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