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Un chat égaré, une inconnue jouant de ses charmes au téléphone, des événements anodins suffisent à faire basculer la vie d'un jeune chômeur, Toru Okada, dans un tourbillon d'aventures. L'espace limité de son quotidien devient le théâtre d'une quête sans cesse renouvelée où rêves, réminiscences et réalités se confondent. Aucune frontière, physique ou symbolique, ne résiste à l'effervescence des questionnements qui s'enchaînent au rythme de rencontres déroutantes, chacune porteuse d'un secret, d'une fragilité propre. Haruki Murakami (La Course au mouton sauvage, La Ballade de l'impossible) tente de nous donner à voir la part d'ombre des choses et des êtres. Replaçant la méditation bouddhique dans la violence contemporaine du japon ou d'ailleurs, il se propose d'explorer nos ténèbres intérieures. Sans se départir d'un humour où perce la détresse, il emmène le lecteur dans un monde fantastique où, toujours plus fuyante, la réalité n'en devient que plus envoûtante.
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Nathan Luecking
reviewed Chroniques de l'oiseau a ressort (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) on January 17, 2009 Chroniques de l'oiseau a ressort (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
A part of me wishes that I hadn't read it yet so I could still read it for the first time and be mesmerized.
It is quiet difficult for me to describe what this book was like. It is surreal and psychedelic. It is mysterious, something out of this world. You just need to stop questioning things and let yourself get carried away. It begins with a seemingly ordinary day in the life of a very ordinary man. But things only gets strange and stranger from there - dreams spill into reality, lines between natural and supernatural are smudged, a guy sitting deep down in a well digs into his subconscious, a boy's personality is stolen by the devil, a miraculous blue mark on a cheek heals people....unusual characters drift in, tell their unusual stories and leave. About 2/3rd of my way into the book I was going crazy to know where it was all going. So it was a relief to get to the end where some of these bizarre happenings were explained.
But getting to the end of the book was also like being rudely woken up from the most wonderful dream. And I didn't want this dream-like experience to be over.
Amidst all of this, Murakami addresses the themes of alienation, loneliness, an individual's search for identity. He questions the national identity as well while exploring some horrifying stories about the second world war. True he leaves a lot of questions to be answered, but it is one of those books where the journey matters more than where the story finally leads you. In a few places the prose is a bit too wordy and repetitious. May be it is a flawed masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless.
And this was how my Murakami love began.
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