1Q84

Libro 3. Ottobre - Dicembre

by Haruki Murakami

395 pages

Published Sept. 4, 2015 by Einaudi.

ISBN:: 978-88-06-22623-7

(21 reviews)

"Tengo, dove sei?" Ci sono amori che devono attraversare universi per incontrarsi. Ci sono amori che devono superare ostacoli, difficoltà, avversari, enigmi. Amori che devono, soprattutto, vincere le paure interiori inquietanti e terribili come piccole creature che albergano dentro di noi per poter creare a propria volta un mondo in cui non ci sia più la paura, un mondo nuovo in cui essere al sicuro in due. Aomame e Tengo vivono da sei mesi in una realtà che non è la loro, un mondo "al di là dello specchio" su cui brillano due lune. Divisi e braccati, costantemente in pericolo di vita, sembra che tutto congiuri per impedire che si incontrino. Sulle loro tracce, oltre la setta Sakigake e forze ancora più sfuggenti e misteriose, adesso c'è anche l'investigatore privato Ushikawa, un ostinato segugio il cui bizzarro aspetto fisico (guardarlo "era come trovarsi di fronte a uno specchio deformante, e tuttavia nitido in modo spiacevole") si accompagna ad un intuito strepitoso. Ushikawa, però, è anche il terzo, inedito punto di vista che, alternandosi a Tengo e Aomame, accompagna il lettore nella vertiginosa conclusione di 1Q84. Qui Murakami tira le fila di tutte le trame, i personaggi, gli enigmi con cui ha costruito la sua narrazione: le domande, le coincidenze, i misteri daranno corpo a una nuova verità, come una costellazione che all'improvviso rivela il suo disegno. Murakami ha creato un universo per raccontarci come si creano gli universi.

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greeny reviewed 1Q84, Book 3 (Japanese Edition) by Haruki Murakami

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3 stars

Murakamis opus magnum left me a bit confused behind. What else did I expect, tbh? Most of his works I read so far did not follow beaten paths. He prefers to go new paths in each of his works, like the natives of the Isle of Sakhalin ( a literary reference he mentions in the second part of the book).
And that is the reason, I don't have a clear opinion on what I just read. I can't compare it to other works because his work differs so much. As a human being, I usually do not have an own opinion on things. I live in my bubble and follow often the established thinking's. When you discover something unknown and your environment hasn't a clear opinion on it, we tend to don't like it. Building an own opinion based on the given objectives is really exhausting.
One of the things I really like about murakamis work, is his old fashioned use of recurring themes. References to Classical music and literature are mentioned many times throughout the book. From Chekhov to Janacek to c.c. Jung a wide range of references are made and embedded in his story line. These references never felt artificial to me and are the part of his works, I love most.

Murakami builds a new world in his books, referenced as year 1Q84, with magical everyday occurrences. He introduces very interesting characters that felt really unique to me. For instance, komatsu, the befriended editor of the main character tengo. I enjoyed each section with him. The story itself has so many fantastic ideas. I will not try to sum it up, because there are better ones who did that. In the end,I felt, like with Stephen king's the dark tower saga - that the building he created was too complex and that there was no real way to end the story by answering all upcoming questions without many questionmarks and contradictions. Instead he decided to end the story as a classical happy end love story without answering any questions. And, as I mentioned in the beginning. How to feel about this? Are we do used to the usual patterns we see in movies or faced in books before,that I can't appreciate this? Or has murakami just taken a convenient shortcut?

I will think about this story in the next days. Maybe this is the most achievement for an author anyway.