5/13/2023 0 Comments Murakami on the shoreThe novel’s theme and subthemes, plots and subplots, characters, and settings reveal thematic, psychological, and structural similarities with well-known literary works and resonate with undertones of contemporary theoretical concepts such as existentialism, psychoanalytic criticism, feminism, and gender theory. The amalgamation of influences from classical and contemporary literary works, ancient Greek and modern European philosophy, jazz, popular music, films, and images from pop culture in the novel constitute a pastiche that pays homage to the originals even as the author freely copies, quotes, and borrows to create a uniquely postmodern world. Abstract: Haruki Murakami’s postmodern novel Kafka on the Shore contains a dazzling array of obligatory, optional, and accidental intertextualities in the form of quotations, direct references, allusions, and adaptations.
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