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Books similar to kafka on the shore6/29/2023 ![]() Impossible worlds are “full of paradoxes” (Ryan 368) and embedded with logical contradictions. ![]() The notions of impossible worlds and temporalities are especially significant and helpful in understanding Murakami’s more surrealistic and postmodern text Kafka on the Shore. It is however a “strategic choice” (Paris Review), according to Murakami, to publish a more mainstream work first in order to build a readership, so that once readers are captivated, they will continue to read other works of his despite the differences in style. Compared to some of the other more mainstream and realist works by Murakami like Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore is “very complicated and very hard to follow” (Paris Review) as Murakami expressed in an interview. The novel Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami breaks some of these traditional notions of reading through experimentation with readers’ expectations and reception by constructing illogical and impossible worlds. It needs to provide a logical frame for the readers to guide their way through the story. Traditionally, a satisfying reading experience is defined largely by the author’s success in creating a sense of immersion and relatability in the readers, and often to achieve this, the work must entail a certain degree of logicality and comprehensibility. ![]() ![]() ![]() The act of reading is dependent on the text’s comprehensibility but also mutually the readers’ ability to make sense of the text. ![]()
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