![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Slowly but surely, without even realizing it, you get intimate with the prose and the characters, despite, nay because of, their flaws. You trudge through the necessary but tedious paragraphs with honesty. 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 fall in love.īut like most things, it has to end. And you are left with an undeniable sense of loss. 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. Speaking of love affairs, this is a major theme in Murakami’s Dance Dance Dance. 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. ![]()
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