Elephant Vanishes is the first short story collection released by Haruki Murakami in the United States. It consists of 15 short stories that showcase his finest works, dwarves dancing from magical land, giant elephants and people looking for his cat. However, everything is definitely Murakami, and each of these stories is worth your time to read, and some of them can read their attached novels. Here are some notes I took while reading the collection and some thoughts on the whole work.
- Murakami uses a unique human emotion or emotion in each of his stories, then he consumes and distorts, shrinks, and extends this emotion into his happiness. I thought of the use of loneliness, hunger and fatigue.
- His concept of reality is very interesting. He constantly lets the character rebuild it for himself, just as they want it. The existence of dual reality is consistent, in which there is a layer lower than the actual reality, the role must be consistent with it.
- He uses logs and memory as a common device. The narrator's memory and how it is used has been bought and analyzed. His use of journals is repeated as a means of organization and structure in the dynamic and chaotic life of his protagonist, providing a more structured way for their lives.
Clockwork bird and woman on Tuesday
The first story is really weird. Mainly because it is not actually a story, but the first chapter of his most famous book, The Wind Birds Chronicle. After being able to find the cat, he walked into the closed alley, watching and ending in the backyard of a sunbathing young girl, where he fell asleep on the lawn chair. A series of appropriate telephone conversations with strangers, the strange girl in the alley created one of his greatest stories in this novel, but it is a bit inappropriate, because you only get the first chapter. However, in typical Murakami fashion, any chapter in any book can be read and meaningful separately, as it rarely happens in the physical reality of his character. Instead, you feel that more things happen than watching. It has sincerely laid the tone for the rest of the book and sets the strange things that will happen to the reader.
Second bakery attack
The second story is also very strange in its implementation. Hunger treatment is interesting to me because it seems to be the result of more psychological problems. His wife is born to be a person here, which does not seem to make much sense. What is the purpose of her violence? Why she was also trapped by the curse, why he has not felt this hunger since the time of the bakery. I think it may be that he needs a companion to feel this hunger. His best friend was at the last time, and then he left. Without a conspiracy, his feelings are not important. However, hunger was felt only two weeks after he got married, and she handled the matter very effectively. Her apprenticeship on this topic is very interesting. It evokes the specter's guess. What Murakami did in the first story. This man is a bit skeptical about his wife.
Kangaroo Bulletin
The third story is very cool for me. The way he started, completely out of the subject, explained his 36 steps - we never really heard - and then continued, the various tangent lines in his conversation were brilliant. The man's work was very boring and frustrating. When he found a gem in his pile of coal, he caught it without flinching. He wants to talk to this girl. He wants to know her. He went on to talk about his wish to live in a double state. He hopes to exist in two places at the same time. I am eager to overcome the monotony of life, but I cannot abandon it at the same time. He is afraid of change, this is the way he handles it, not changing. Because he recorded the letter to the girl and told her what might not be appropriate. But they are his other self-expression. The seclusion department store itself was put aside, this second self, who wanted to sleep with her and wrote her letter, was brought out without worrying about the consequences.
After seeing 100% perfect girl a beautiful April morning
This is another wonderful story that I can't overcome. It is short and does not provide any plot or development. Just a very cool series of thoughts and a seed of doubt left to the reader about what really happened. Murakami's narrator saw a girl on the street and he knew it was perfect for him. I don't know how or why, she is. love at first sight. But he didn't do anything. The conjecture formed a very tragic or completely romantic story that exists beneath the surface. If he tells her story and they get together, the reader will think of how cute this romance is. Since he didn't talk to her, I don't know if this story is true. How sad it will be. This is a story about opportunities. About getting opportunities in life and making the most of them. Don't let fate kick your ass. The two narrators left his 100% perfect girl. In his story, he used to be in real life. She will never return to him
go to bed
This is a very interesting story. It solves a series of different things about her life. She seems to be lost in the world she created. Because of the arrogance of her husband's family, she has lost everything in her life and made her her. When she stopped sleeping, she was condemning reality to regain her part. She opposed the fate she had established and created a new reality for herself. In doing so, she must face death and eventually meet it. Her view of reality is completely tilted. Here she created a new one. A place where she maintains her identity. Not the one whose husband is brave. She is in the middle of a crisis, and she is treated like this.
The collapse of the Roman Empire, the Indian uprising of 1881, Hitler's invasion of Poland, and the ravages of the wind
This work uses important events to mark the narrator's own personal history. It follows a simple event day and marks small normal events as major events with historical metaphors. He seems to say that his entire life can be marked and remembered with key points and words without all the details. There is some linearity in our lives that makes life easier to remember.
Leather pants
As a catalyst, leather pants let her take a step back and look at the world and her life. She had to build a fantasy world where she lived at that point. She couldn't get out of it and saw how much she didn't want it. She originally did this. When she found that the man who looked like her husband didn't, she could see what she got from the outsider POV. It was disturbing for her, so she was able to work through her own emotions and forget her husband.
Barn burning
This is a very scary little story. A man from Africa is either a murderer or a truly terrible person who scares her. I tend to the former in the way he describes how the barn is burned. The intimate relationship between the narrator and the girl is important here because it refutes the barn statement that the man needs to burn. His whole idea is that the barn is old and useless and will not harm anyone, but the last barn is like this, and the narrator is the one affected by it. So it is not harmless. Although he continues to look for barns and girls, he does not know this correlation. This in turn led to a double problem, in which case he tried to find a text object that was not burned, and found a symbolic object in his mind, that is, the girl he missed, already from his life. Disappeared. Very loving and very disturbing.
Little green monster
She rebuked love. In doing so, her every move, every bad idea and bad way hurt the creature. It seems to be a metaphor for rejection. She rejects these unrewarded creatures, which will destroy him. She only saw that he was a terrible ugly creature, ignoring his love and calm attitude. She ruthlessly destroyed him, not figuring out what he wanted to say or how to get him back home. His passion attracted him to her home, unpopular, because her malice was released, almost through reflection. The author seems to be making statements to women here and how ruthless they are about men's love. There is also a statement about the blindness of love and how men react without thinking about the choices they imply.
Family affairs
This story makes me think it is equivalent to the secondary plot and hidden meaning. All of this is done in a very modest way, true to Murakami's style, it's really good, especially at the end, with its blunt, truth-seeking storytelling. First of all, the narrator and his sister are what he calls "partners." Partners live a meaningless lifestyle. Still, she has grown up. In the five years they lived together, she grew up in the world and cultivated a sense of responsibility and status. However, he is still trapped in his own small world, his independent reality. This often has nothing to do with how he says that he does not affect him, such as who wins a baseball game to prove. It doesn't matter. "I am not playing, they are." The narrator and Noburo Watanabe are very different. The important point to point out first is that Watanabe has a name. Rarely, if any character even receives a name in the village story. This name is important because it symbolizes a place in reality. His position in reality is marked by his name and he matches it by this name. he...
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