Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance

Chikako Nihei

Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 December 2021
Pages
182
ISBN
9781032241197

Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance

Chikako Nihei

Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to cross into a different context, through which they can effectively observe themselves and reality. His belief in the importance of monogatari is closely linked to his generation’s experience of the counter- –culture movement in the late1960s and his research on the 1995 Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack caused by the Aum shinrikyo cult, major events in postwar Japan that revealed many people’s desire for a stable narrative to interact with and form their identity from.

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