Lit. Analysis: Murakami: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

Haruki Murakami. I look at one page of his writing, analyzing authorial choices. What is he doing with metaphor? What does it mean to be colorless? What is so good about Murakmi's writing? How does ambiguity in the realm of metaphor-dream-reality shape meaning for the reader? Who is narrating this thing anyways? In what ways is this extract surrealist?

[@payalmathur22]

Thanks for the in-depth analysis. I appreciate it, sir. I believe the line, "Tsukuru couldn't fathom what the substance was" makes sense. The narrator is trying to make us understand what was going on around him. But the protagonist could not make out of his days and his surroundings. Like trains, his life was moving forward, but as a station, he was static.

[@Booklover32]

I felt like this story was definitely metaphorical. All the names in Japanese also mean colors (Aka = Red, Ao = Blue, Kuro = Black, Shiro = White). It's like the journey of the soul after trauma, and Sara was more like a catalyst (therapist) for him getting past this trauma. What about that jazz musician that just disappeared and Tsukuru's male friend that vanished after his dream?

[@talktraumatome9681]

The last part is describing traumatic dissociation.

[@ThomasLewandowski]

That’s a deep insight, thanks. This might chance my approach to the whole novel.

[@AnnaGuseva-c8g]

Love it, thank you for the analysis

[@AjayYadav-lb6hn]

Great work .
Analyse the ending alsoo