REVIEW: Kafka on the Shore

For those who have read this novel nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize winner Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, They know in advance the confusion experienced in the surreal journey over the course of this work.

Although the plot and development Kafka on the Shore it has been defined as labyrinthine and confusing, and included Kafkaesque (term acquired by the great works of Franz Kafka), we can ensure that this combination generates an attraction impossible to avoid. With alternating narration two parallel accounts which do not cross each other, as we discovered during the course of the action, they have more relationship than thought.

As for the characters, On the one hand we find the young Kafka Tamura, a teenager teenager who runs away from home guided by a kind of alter ego illusory (Cuervo) to avoid curse imposed by his father under which he repeats the same fate as Oedipus: murders his own father and sleeps with his mother. On the other hand, Satoru Nakata is a man of sixty years with the ability to talk to cats after an almost inexplicable incident that erased all memory and basic qualities such as reasoning or understanding the world around them with ease.

This novel addition to making us question after question create as we move into reading, It forces us to immerse ourselves in a surreal and paranoid world that leaves us all questioning ourselves the same question: "That is real?”

Murakami It is characterized by mixing the illusory with veridical, It attracts readers with his narrative technique which describes each situation with details that at first think are unnecessary, but in the course of history we fall into something almost hypnotic. Kafka on the Shore It is a novel about the maturity that shows the evolution of the protagonist to leave behind all the tragedies past and move forward without looking back.

By Michelle Torres

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