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Podivná Knihovna (2014)

by Haruki Murakami(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Odeon

review 1: A beautifully bound artifact of a book. Actually, a beautifully bound artifact of a short short story, with facing-page graphics, colourful vignettes sliced from larger works of art, with an Andy Warhol feel about them. And each designed to add to the puzzle of this postmodern fable, so simply, elegantly written. The Strange Library is classic Murakami, a tale of alienation, bafflement and loss, a mystery within a sheep man within a squeaky shoe. Don't expect solutions to your puzzlement, though, if you've read him before, by now you should know a Murakami narrative is an hallucination you have to feel your way through. A magic realist maze, perhaps, but one of Japanese sensibilities, where you leave reason and analysis at the coat check, where the only way out i... mores in.
review 2: Below my expectation of usual-expectation-on-Murakami. The story might be fine if it were in a book of short stories, but making it a book is too....... short and lack of everything a book might need. The artwork is cool but kind of boring after a while. Even if the child in me had to read it as a children book, I still wouldn't like it. Too dark yet nothing deep to dig.Nice for collection anyway. less

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