IQ84A, by Haruki Murakami
Salerno - Wednesday 4 October '23.
The day after tomorrow, Friday 6 October, at 1pm, in front of the Royal Swedish Academy, on the occasion of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature, the winners will be announced: among the favorites there is also the timeless Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, who rose to the top of British betting sites, at 11.
The news, as soon as it is published, will be updated in this same article. Milan Kundera, who died on 11 July 2023, author of the masterpiece "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", and Cormac McCarthy, who passed away on 13 June 2023, will no longer be able to win the Nobel Prize. Nobel Prizes 2023. The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Jon Fosse "for his plays and innovative prose that give voice to the unspeakable".
For those who wish to delve deeper, please refer to the excellent article by his translator: Jon Fosse, writing as a mystery of existence. This time Harucki Murakami is not in the top positions, proving that brilliant first works, for each writer, do not come in a continuous stream.
Some notes on the plot. 'Hotel Ōkura in Tōkyō: here Aomame meets the Leader, and kills him with a particular technique of his invention, which leaves no trace.
The same night, while a strange thunder storm without lightning breaks out over Tokyo, Tengo, another protagonist of the novel, is mysteriously forced, against his will, to mate with Fukaeri, a little girl around whose mystery a good part of the novel revolves . In another part of the novel, Tengo learns that his father has fallen into a coma; he goes to the clinic and while the man is out of the room for an exam he sees an air chrysalis on his bed, exactly the same as the one described in Fukaeri's novel. Inside is Aomame's body as he remembers her, at the age of ten. We won't stay here to tell the whole plot, because it would be a grave injustice to the readers of this article. We will limit ourselves to saying that the common thread of all Haruki Murakami's novels is represented by the discomfort of living in society. For Murakami, only love can prevail over the chaos and futility of the world.
The three books are a pleasure to read, both because the author has an extraordinary ability to bring the reader to a high level of suspense, and for that aura of mystery of the two parallel worlds, one normal, the other extraordinary (. .. with two moons in the sky: one the usual yellow moon; the second, positioned next to it, smaller, green!).
Obviously, Haruki Murakami's novels are very different in nature from those of European and Italian literature. For example, for European literature, we cite Jon Fosse's masterpiece ("Septology"); for Italian literature, the Crepuscularism of Giovanni Verga ("I Malavoglia"), and the Naturalism of Luigi Capuana ("The Marquis of Roccaverdina").
