After the Quake

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Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" was a real misunderstanding for me and it really was the foggiest story from all the six. I actually like his short stories much better than his novels, as his longer stories eventually do things that annoy me.

Junko, a runaway, and Keisuke, surfer and rock music enthusiast, share a place in a small seaside town in the Ibaraki Prefecture. It became a catalyst for individuals to reassess their lives with unexpected consequences for themselves and their families and friends around them.Pastrocchio inenarrabile che tenta goffamente di legare il tema del peccato con una sottile atmosfera conturbante; ma il peggio arriva con la stucchevole risoluzione finale che si va a barcamenare tra catarsi shintoiste e prese di coscienza con tanto di nerchia gigante a fare da spettatrice (idea vagamente simpatica, ma, davvero, non si può leggere senza strabuzzare gli occhi). All of the stories are set in February 1995, the month between the Kobe earthquake and the Tokyo gas attacks. That man was adamant about Yoshiya not being his child and had an accident in his childhood in which a dog bit off one of his earlobes.

Murakami would not be so bold as to assume that he was saving anyone, but the stories of After the Quake make space for their characters to consider, to ponder, and in doing so, to ask more of themselves than the simple binary of vengeance or disappearance. This short collection of six stories - few of them taking more than 15 minutes to read - take their origin from the devastating earthquake that hit Kobe in Japan not long ago. Ce-a de-a cincea este o poveste fantasy "Broscanul salveaza Tokyo" ce infatiseaza un broscoi adevarat, vorbitor, care ii propune unui barbat sa salveze impreuna Tokyo de un cutremur iminent.After traveling through a scrap yard and several walls, they end up at a baseball field and the man vanishes.

And the second, "Honey Pie", fits with Murakami's more romantic and sentimental work (which my wife, a fellow Murakami lover, always says she enjoys more). Recitava Agostino d'Ippona che "vivere nel rancore è l'equivalente di bere un veleno e sperare che sia l'altro a morire". Along with Underground, a collection of interviews and essays about the 1995 Tokyo gas attacks, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a complex exploration of Japan's modern history, after the quake represents part of an effort on the part of Murakami to adopt a more purposeful exploration of the Japanese national conscience. after the quake was the imaginative response from Japan's leading novelist, Haruki Murakami: six stories, each dealing not directly with the catastrophe but the wider seismic effect it had on the emotional lives of people many miles away. This is the twelfth book I have read by Murakami and at this point you could probably say that I am quite invested in the author.This slim little volume of short stories (only six of them in all), all loosely connected to the 1995 Kobe earthquake, didn't garner as much critical acclaim as some of Murakami's other books. Perhaps it’s the central tie-in, the connection to the Kobe earthquake, that makes them stand out, hold them together. Afterwards, the three go to a love hotel; Keiko knows the owner and says he can stay there for the duration of his trip. First published in Japan in 2000, it was released in English as after the quake in 2002 (translator Jay Rubin notes that Murakami "insisted" the title "should be all lower-case"). Trebuie sa recunosc ca nu sunt fana a animalutelor vorbitoare, fiind trecuta de varsta in care sa mai cred in asemenea lucruri.

There’s a sense that the Kobe earthquake was such a catastrophic event that, no matter how small the connection, it affected the entire of Japan. Not unsimilar to the interviews with several members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult (that was responsible for the gas attack) in ‘Underground’, we are shown the emptiness, darkness and existential despair that Murakami’s characters experience in their lives. I consider them quite a random bunch of stories that happened to be written after a natural disaster which briefly appears in the pages.He then tells the story of how polar bears mate once a year and how the males run away afterwards and both wonder about the existential meaning of the story.