![]() ![]() Take 'Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova' for example: the narrator recalls writing a spoof review years ago of Charlie 'Bird' Parker coming back from oblivion to make a new recording in a style the opposite of his usual bebop style. ![]() In between, the themes include those that Murakami keeps returning to as essential: ambiguity, dreams vs waking life, memory, time, guilt, connection with others, physicality, death, aloneness, and. 'First Person Singular' starts and ends with a story about how each of us can deal with the complexities and ambiguities of life - first story offers a way to overcome, last story paints a picture of the awfulness that comes from being overwhelmed. Murakami's short stories are his best format, in my view: in twenty or so pages he spins out a whole world with the greatest skill, in terms of 'where is this taking me', complex time-structure of the story, immersive language, many currents of thought lying beneath the calm surface. although some I don't like so much, while some I love. Confession: I am a Murakami addict, owning all the work in English that I can get hold of by him. ![]()
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