Murakami is no longer just the surname of a Japanese writer, but a common noun for many, many connoisseurs of literature in the world, and especially (why - it is still worth thinking about) - for those who read in Russian. One can sneer and say that in such a situation, when the entire circulation of a new two-volume book is sold out in the author's homeland in one day without any advertising, the literary value of the work itself for the same author somehow fades into the background. In any case, it really happens. Murakami does not upset his readers, and every time he gives out exactly what is expected of him.
The numbers and letters in the title of the last novel, which add up to the combination "1Q84", are sort of like an Orwellian date, remade into its strange clone: one thousand eighty-fourth, which exists parallel to 1984. Not really fiction, of course, but not without it - as always with Murakami. Fukaeri also begins to believe in parallel worlds - a 17-year-old girl who barely speaks and falls into a stupor from reading, who escaped from a religious sect as a child, and dictated to her new sister a whole novel about LittlePeople (about these below); and Aomame is a hidden lesbian, rod girl who kills men who abuse their wives. The second simply did not grasp at what moment reality moved somewhere without her knowledge, the first one saw LittlePeople - "little people emerging from the mouth of a dead goat." This people keeps in their fists our whole promised life, but no one, of course, knows about them. There is another hero, Tengo, who undertakes to rewrite a novel about dwarfs and learns too many strange facts about others. Everything is explained, of course, only by the manuscript itself, with the content of which the author begins to acquaint us, without even warning.
Murakami is easy to guess. This is not at all the dominant, but retaining the reader's spoon of alternative reality, this is a completely mundane everyday Japan today and its stories from the past, this is more than an unusual relationship between a man and a woman. It is too long? No, this is very detailed. Is it too vulgar? No, it's just modern. "1Q84" is simply, in an amicable way, "all the best from Murakami in one bottle." And in this sense, you can even start to fear - what will surprise you next? Although, of course, there will be enough reading for the near future; despite the fact that the third book is now being translated to the two volumes that have been published, which seem to be presented together and separately, and there is a secret for you that spurs you on to reading better than any advertisement.
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