Kafka on the Shore

Both find it absurd: fish falling from the sky, Colonel Sanders as a pimp. Tamir only recommends it to die-hard fans.

Where it appears 2

• 
  the forbidden wonderland of murakamiEp 10 · with Salih Yayar

  Salih's favorite Murakami novel for its 'unhinged creativity' and the character Nakata. Tamir finds it 'an onslaught of weird' and asks about the unexplained wartime incident in the woods; Salih reads it as WWII trauma and Western influence (Colonel Sanders, Johnnie Walker) and the forest at the end as a limbo between life and death.

  Listen at 55:38Read it in the transcript
• 
  the antidote to madnessEp 2 · with Grant Shipway

  Listen at 1:25:43Read it in the transcript

Connections

Written by

• Haruki Murakami

Themes and ideas

• Limbo between life and death

Referenced by

• Limbo between life and death
• Magic Realism
• Fiction can process collective trauma
• Limbo separates body from mind

Related

• Oedipus Rex
• Colonel Sanders (Kafka on the Shore)
• Johnnie Walker (Kafka on the Shore)
• Kafka Tamura
• Nakata