Post by account_disabled on Dec 4, 2023 22:09:55 GMT -6
Yet, a few years ago, I also bought the fantasy Moribito by Nahoko Uehashi, not yet read. Murakami's writing is a writing that takes and in this article I wanted to highlight my impressions, both positive and negative. Narrative urgency in Murakami OKJust last Monday we talked about what I called narrative urgency in writing : an author's ability to keep the reader focused on his pages. In the end, I believe that narrative urgency is not the prerogative of the writer, but of the reader. Salvatore to a comment on my post .Yes, I can agree with this reflection, because after all, when we read a book, whatever the author, it is not necessarily the case that it is only the author who keeps us glued to his pages, but we are the first to allow him to do so.
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway won the Nobel and for me it is one of the two most boring novels I have ever read, together with The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (just to stay on the Japanese theme). In Hemingway and Ishiguro I did not find this Phone Number Data narrative urgency that I instead saw in Murakami. 1Q84 kept me in its world and I think the structure of the novel played a role in that too. Just yesterday, when I talked about the novel Dracula , I mentioned a structure that I thought was functional, found above all in Martin: character names instead of chapters. The same happens in 1Q84 : the novel is divided into 3 books (April-June, July-September and October-December), but is published in 2 volumes ( 1Q84 April-June+July-September and 1Q84 October-December).
In the first volume we only find an alternation of Aomame and Tengo, the two main characters of the story. At the end of each chapter I wanted to finish the next one to know what happened to Aomame and then return to Tengo and so on until the end. NOSimplistic solutions : Murakami, in my opinion, resolved some situations too hastily, which in reality no one would have accepted in such a natural way. This for me is a flaw in his writing, because the credibility that remains throughout the story is missing. And it's not a question of suspension of disbelief , in this case, because Murakami instructed the very characters for those simplistic resolutions.
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway won the Nobel and for me it is one of the two most boring novels I have ever read, together with The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (just to stay on the Japanese theme). In Hemingway and Ishiguro I did not find this Phone Number Data narrative urgency that I instead saw in Murakami. 1Q84 kept me in its world and I think the structure of the novel played a role in that too. Just yesterday, when I talked about the novel Dracula , I mentioned a structure that I thought was functional, found above all in Martin: character names instead of chapters. The same happens in 1Q84 : the novel is divided into 3 books (April-June, July-September and October-December), but is published in 2 volumes ( 1Q84 April-June+July-September and 1Q84 October-December).
In the first volume we only find an alternation of Aomame and Tengo, the two main characters of the story. At the end of each chapter I wanted to finish the next one to know what happened to Aomame and then return to Tengo and so on until the end. NOSimplistic solutions : Murakami, in my opinion, resolved some situations too hastily, which in reality no one would have accepted in such a natural way. This for me is a flaw in his writing, because the credibility that remains throughout the story is missing. And it's not a question of suspension of disbelief , in this case, because Murakami instructed the very characters for those simplistic resolutions.