5/22/2023 0 Comments Chronicles of the wind up birdThe difference between ''Wind-Up Bird'' and Mr. Like those earlier novels, it sends its hero off on a long, strange wild goose chase that turns into a sort of Kafkaesque nightmare. Like ''A Wild Sheep Chase'' and ''Dance Dance Dance,'' it features a very ordinary man as its hero - a passive, affectless sort of guy with a lowly job and even lower expectations. Murakami's previous stories, ''Wind-Up Bird'' is part detective story, part Bildungsroman, part fairy tale, part science-fiction-meets-Lewis Carroll. Murakami has written a fragmentary and chaotic book. In trying to depict a fragmented, chaotic and ultimately unknowable world, Mr. ''Wind-Up Bird'' has some powerful scenes of antic comedy and some shattering scenes of historical power, but such moments do not add up to a satisfying, fully fashioned novel. Murakami seems to have tried to write a book with the esthetic heft and vision of, say, Don DeLillo's ''Underworld'' or Salman Rushdie's ''The Moor's Last Sigh,'' he is only intermittently successful. Haruki Murakami's latest novel, ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,'' is a wildly ambitious book that not only recapitulates the themes, motifs and preoccupations of his earlier work, but also aspires to invest that material with weighty mythic and historical significance.
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