Talk:Kafka on the Shore

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[edit] Stub?

I was 20:36, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so. Removed the tag. --Dodo bird 10:40, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Connections with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

This section is a bit too speculative, IMO. I'm not sure if it should even be included. If it is, it should be trimmed down to just the hard, cold basics - one of the characteristics of Murakami's writing is that there is never a simple, straightforward explanation for anything, and almost any view on anything can be considered subjective. For example, I agree that the town in this novel is a strong echo of the town in The End of the World, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that the shadow-cutting in The End of the World is an explanation for the half-shadow issue in Kafka on the Shore. TomorrowTime 18:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, half a year later there are still no comments to this, so I removed this section altogether. It's not only highly speculative (i.e. OR), it's also in direct contrast to the author's own words quoted in the following section: Kafka on the Shore contains several riddles, but there aren't any solutions provided. TomorrowTime 20:08, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:39, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

A Letter to the Editor

I'm very dissapointed that you did not get the main point of the novel. The Plot Summary doesn't show the points that are important. Kafka Tamura, the 15 year old runaway flies in case of oedipal curse. And this oedipal curse plays a role in every page of this novel. He meets a girl called sakura, who is hypotheticly is sister. He rapes her in his dreams. He gets to know a women called Saeki who takes the role of Kafkas Mother and has sexual intercourse with him and there existing also facts that he has murdered is father. All these Points lead to the conclusion that he came up to oedipal course. And after he'd done all these things he goes away from his new circumcises and this makes clear why the novel is called Modern Greek Tragedy.

LG, Elinoi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elinoi (talk • contribs) 15:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

circumstances, i mean —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elinoi (talk • contribs) 16:29, 3 March 2008 (UTC)