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Article: Memory, hybridity, and creative alliance in Haruki Murakami's fiction.(Critical essay)
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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This essay explores the use of animals in Haruki Murakami's fiction, where animals serve as the emblem of selfhood, where human-animal hybrids manifest the fragmented self, and where becoming-animal inspires a creative process in which humans can fare better.
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The couple ... were able to open a cosy little establishment in a
western suburb of Tokyo in 1974. They called it "Peter Cat" after an old
pet of Haruki's--Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words.
This essay attempts to fill the gap in the criticism on Haruki Murakami by exploring the use of animals in his major fiction. While it will critique and expand the critical ...