Murakami

Once you start reading it, it is very difficult to stop. And you read insanely, as if there's no tomorrow and you won't be able to know what is gonna happen next. And you're sad when book is over, like some interesting part of your life has come to an end, and then you keep thinking of what has happened, and all you're getting afterwards -is bittersweet remenescents, you don't remember names, situations, you just remember the way you felt when you were reading a book. You cry in places that are sad, you laugh ... but I don't remember funny scenes from Murakami books. Maybe that's the reason I am so obsessed with his books? Gosh, probably I, indeed, prefer writers that are mostly depressed in their stories, novels. Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, to name the few :)

And I feel a bit envious of people who never read anything from him and they will someday, by a very lucky chance, have a chance to be introduced to his books.

I was so fond of his books, so I even started reading Ryu Murakami's books :)) Only because of misthinking that Murakami surname is a guarantee ot unforgettable books :))

When I was super young, what was it there...The wind- up bird chronicle. Dance Dance Dance. His short stories. Underground... Oh that's where I got a bit disappointed about him. Writing something documentary, something like- at that particular time, at that particular day, something has happened and etc. Only facts, nothing out of Murakami, just bare facts. But what happened in Japan, in the underground was horrible, of course... using zarine against innocent people in a closed environment...

Days ago I finished reading 'Kafka on the shore'. About this guy... About that woman... Story is quite similar to  the one happened with Oedipus rex in Sophocles' tragedy. Abandoned son grows up, finds whereabouts of his mother, unintentionally sleeps with her, and then everybody dies. But the story is not that prosaic as it may sound. It is about love, that ruined one's soul beyond any repair. Memories of that love, that 'warm you up from the inside, and also tear you apart'. Throughout your life you keep those memories, in this 'library' built for you only, protected by tall fences, unbreakable walls, and at the end... endless desire to fire these memories to hell.

Mysterious, sad story...

Oh, and it is about cats :) A person that can speak to cats. Nakata- san, the most wise, the most smartest character of the book.