Intertextuality In Kafka On The Shore
Chofia Basumatary
Course Coordinator: Radha Chakravarty
MA English- Literary Relations: Intertextuality
21th April 2016
“Workings of music and magical realism in asserting one’s identity in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore”.
The 2002 page turner Kafka on the Shore by the noteworthy and internationally acclaimed Japanese writer Haruki Murakami is a blend of the metaphysical and the postmodern sensibilities. The copious novel is embedded with a kind of intertextuality which can be recognized with ease but this familiarity is not to be mistaken with simplicity as the complex tirade of identity and crisis plays its gritty role. The novel is a constant reworking of the psychological stigmas of the characters especially that of the runaway fifteen
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One of the main characters and the suppose muse of Kafka Miss Saeki had found her musical piece “Kafka on the Shore” on a deserted afterlife, a kind of small bright room, not of this world and she had in her dreams or trance-like reality captured each and every string of the melody and played it only for her lover but which came into notice of one of the composers who produced it and admittedly became well liked. Its mysterious how the piece of music she created ages back has the same name as the runaway kid Kafka, thus, it can be assumed that the dead lover was reborn as the kid so they are quite unusually attracted to each …show more content…
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