BOOKS FROM JAPANHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Set in Japan
Male author
Description:
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.
Reviews:
(11 months ago) |
25 Oct, 2024
Conte philosophique, réalisme magique et science-fiction rencontrent ici poésie, humour, intelligence, esprit et créativité. Je suis admiratrice et reconnaissante d'avoir eu accès à cet imaginaire complexe qui m'a fait traverser toutes sortes d'émotions, qui m'a fait me creuser les méninges et qui m'a guidée à travers une symbolique de la conscience humaine merveilleuse, fantaisiste et touchante.
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(2 weeks ago) |
25 Sep, 2025
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a 1985 novel by Haruki Murakami that features two parallel narratives: a cyberpunk story set in a futuristic Tokyo and a surreal fantasy story in a dreamlike world. The novel explores themes of consciousness, identity, and the nature of reality through these contrasting yet connected storylines, following a data processor in the "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" and a dream reader in "The End of the World".
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