1Q84

Octobre-décembre

529 pages

French language

Published July 29, 2012 by Belfond.

ISBN:
978-2-7144-4985-6
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OCLC Number:
779761186

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4 stars (27 reviews)

15 editions

Review of '1Q84' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I really enjoyed all the books in the series. I'm pleased with the ending, although there are a few things that seem to just have been dropped along the way...

Buzzcut and Ponytail were on their way to Tokyo, then nothing was hard of them again. Tengo's mother, Tamaki, Ayumi, and Kumi Adachi all died in the same way, with no particular explanation of why, or who did it, or any mention of how they were linked, if at all.

Anyway, enjoyable story. :-)

Review of '1Q84' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars



“According to Chekhov,” Tamaru says early in Book Two when Aomame asks him for a gun, “once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired.”

Later in Book Two, Amomame responds to Tamaru's request that the gun come back unused: “Meaning, you want me to violate Chekhov's rule.”

Tamaru replies, “Exactly. Chekhov was a great writer, but not all novels have to follow his rules. Not all guns in stories have to be fired.”

And so begins the literary experiment that plays out through all of Book Three: What happens if a novel violates Chekhov's rule? What if it goes on violating it for over 300 pages?

The answer is a prolonged study in literary stasis, in which everything is trapped in a whirlpool of events. There's a lot going on, but characters don't develop and the plot doesn't budge an inch.

Murakami is deliberately playing with …

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