1Q84..
Q stands for question. Actually, there are lots of unanswered questions left after you're done with the reading. Quite ambiguous, 1000+ pages trilogy btw)) My humble opinion is that the author could have squeeze everything ,he wanted to tell to his loyal readers, in one single book. The whole trilogy is way too static. Yeah, may be God is in the details, but there shouldn't be that sort of exaggeration. Too much of attention you're paying to clothes Aomame wears, of what Tengo thinks again and again when he memorizes his mother's breasts... And all these descriptional stuff on breasts theme. What's the whole idea of emphasizing on this kind of, some ,and I myself, may find disgusting deviations? They were way too much in 'Kafka...', and now once again, main character psychologically 'deceased' with Oedipus complex...You see the dynamics only by the end of the third book, that's why there are so many questions left. Dowager, Tamaru, Little people, for God's sake, what happened to all of them? Knocking on the doors, NHK fee collector's story read from the newspaper... What happened to the idea of causal connection?
Q stands for question. Actually, there are lots of unanswered questions left after you're done with the reading. Quite ambiguous, 1000+ pages trilogy btw)) My humble opinion is that the author could have squeeze everything ,he wanted to tell to his loyal readers, in one single book. The whole trilogy is way too static. Yeah, may be God is in the details, but there shouldn't be that sort of exaggeration. Too much of attention you're paying to clothes Aomame wears, of what Tengo thinks again and again when he memorizes his mother's breasts... And all these descriptional stuff on breasts theme. What's the whole idea of emphasizing on this kind of, some ,and I myself, may find disgusting deviations? They were way too much in 'Kafka...', and now once again, main character psychologically 'deceased' with Oedipus complex...You see the dynamics only by the end of the third book, that's why there are so many questions left. Dowager, Tamaru, Little people, for God's sake, what happened to all of them? Knocking on the doors, NHK fee collector's story read from the newspaper... What happened to the idea of causal connection?
Murakami often appeals to Chekhov's famous line about the 'gun hanging on the wall'... But what about his own gun?
Oh, need to admit that almost extreme level of sophistication of 1Q84's characters. Physically strong, god like human beings, able to transcend themselves into the parallel worlds, which in fact, were created within their own imagination, intelligent, having good taste of books, of music... Tolstoy's quote about happiness ...initial idea of it was so very different.
But those are details))
I think the book itself is a bit over rated. I do remember, first release of the book in English, while I was living in Italy. Bookstores full of huge ads screaming 'yay, finally the book has been released, BUY it!'. Over- rated. Collective unconscious.
So main disappointment is that I didn't find central idea of these good 3 books. You know, when you read the book, you see the movie, there MUST be that central point, that gives answers on unanswered questions, that clarifies doubts, that makes you cry, makes you laugh, shortly touches you, so that after reading it, even if you're forgetting names, forgetting sequences of acts, you do remember that small little thing, that tiny central take away that stays with you.
Aomame and Tengo were living in their own separate worlds for way too long, so their unification by the end of the book has that unnatural, fake taste. As if they were supposed to unite by the end, no matter what, and they did, no matter what.
ps: everyone is such a critic these days :))) But seriously, I do love Murakami, and I do have a feeling that I myself prefer early Murakami, the one before 'The Underground'.
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