Kafka On The Shore Analysis

Haruki Murakami’s novel, “Kafka on the Shore” (translated, from the Japanese, by Philip Gabriel) has the canvas of a dream where the surreal mates with real possibilities, the tale is told in a magic realist style and at once invites the characters as well as the readers to a journey that is bewitching and at some points clueless, much like life itself. Though the novel has the element of absurdity, yet it never fails to take us to a never never land deprived of illusions and of light where a man feels a stranger. Although Kafka on the Shore is a transcendental sojourn beyond the realms of plebian reality, it encompasses a globe that can be explained by reasoning only by an avid reader of Murakami novels who is sure to start a voyage amidst the metaphoric sea of Murakami’s world to accumulate the possible meanings from the riddles that the writer so deftly uses. The metaphors give life to the story, problematizes it and the riddles lurk the probable solutions.

Relentlessly metaphysical, Kafka on the Shore is a page turner that is rich

However, Kafka on the Shore is not just a journey that teaches you about Life. It’s not a book that one reads while feeling dreary and lost amidst a heckling crowd, but the one meant for you alone far from the sway of the crowd, beside a warm fireplace on a chilly wintry night when the faraway smell of the night will kinder a breath of nostalgia and whisper in your ears about LIFE with all it’s magic and realities- “And when the storm is over, you won 't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won 't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of a storm, you won 't be the same person who walked in. That 's what the storm is