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Tooru Okada, un joven japonés que acaba de dejar voluntariamente su trabajo en un bufete de abogados, recibe un buen dÃa la llamada anónima de una mujer. A partir de ese momento la vida de Tooru, que habÃa transcurrido por los cauces de la más absoluta normalidad, empieza a sufrir una extraña transformación. Su mujer desaparece, comienzan a surgir personajes cada vez más extraños, y lo real va degradándose hasta convertirse en algo fantasmagórico. La percepción del mundo se vuelve mágica, los sueños invaden la realidad y, poco a poco, Tooru Okada se siente impelido a resolver los conflictos que, sin sospecharlo siquiera, ha arrastrado a lo largo de toda su vida. Gracias a la galerÃa de personajes tan sorprendentes como profundamente auténticos que pueblan esta Crónica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo, la vida cotidiana del Japón moderno se nos aparece de pronto cercana y familiar.
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Jeremy Mcclure
reviewed Cronica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) on January 17, 2009 Cronica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo (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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