Tag Archives: Kafka on the Shore

Murakami and Repressed Anger’s Toxicity

By Robin Bates | Published: May 24, 2018

Murakami’s novels cast light on a recent Japanese football incident where a player was instructed to take out the other team’s quarterback.

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Murakami and Millennials’ Identity Quests

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2018

Murakami’s novels appeal to millennials because they are existential parables, and young people are grappling with life’s big questions, especially identity and purpose.

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Note to Men: Face Your Inner Violence

By Robin Bates | Published: November 22, 2017

To grapple with the fact of male sexual assault, it helps to have powerful literary explorations. Murakami provides one in “Kafka on the Shore.”

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Murakami on Ideology’s Hollowness

By Robin Bates | Published: November 8, 2017

Murakami’s diatribe against rigid ideologues in “Kafka on the Shore” applies only too well to figures on the American right.

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Bigotry = A Loathsome Lack of Imagination

By Robin Bates | Published: July 2, 2012

Murakami says that the worst thing about bigots is that they are hollow men devoid of imagination.

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