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Kafka on the Shore
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Buckle up to experience extremely confusing, mind numbing, vivid, compelling, controversial, wild ride!
Don’t let simple, plain writing style fool you! Get ready for the bombardment of whirlwind journey between different genres including fantasy, magical realism, fiction and get drown in the sea of allegories, metaphors, vibes of
Shakespearean plays, Greek tragedies, amazing mash up of Eastern spiritualism meets Western philosophy!
The book needs to be read more than twice! If you deeply get connected with the characters and visualize yourself in their places, you feel like you’re teleported to Terry Gilliam movies’ surrealistic worlds and after a few rides later you find yourself dark humorous, complex Cohen Brothers’ rug, flying with Big Lebowski, waving to the people, questioning yourself which part of is a dream and which part is pure reality!
I enjoyed this ultra complex, brain cell frier journey even though I have more questions than appropriate answers!
My favorite quotes of the novel are:
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory,unhappiness a story.”
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”
Don’t let simple, plain writing style fool you! Get ready for the bombardment of whirlwind journey between different genres including fantasy, magical realism, fiction and get drown in the sea of allegories, metaphors, vibes of
Shakespearean plays, Greek tragedies, amazing mash up of Eastern spiritualism meets Western philosophy!
The book needs to be read more than twice! If you deeply get connected with the characters and visualize yourself in their places, you feel like you’re teleported to Terry Gilliam movies’ surrealistic worlds and after a few rides later you find yourself dark humorous, complex Cohen Brothers’ rug, flying with Big Lebowski, waving to the people, questioning yourself which part of is a dream and which part is pure reality!
I enjoyed this ultra complex, brain cell frier journey even though I have more questions than appropriate answers!
My favorite quotes of the novel are:
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory,unhappiness a story.”
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”
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