The Strange Library: Haruki Murakami

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In literature, the labyrinth is always a metaphor, but in The Strange Library could it be the space of some sort of psychogenic fugue? While the story would have felt at home between the covers of The Elephant Vanishes, it also works quite well as a children's novel.

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We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. But then again, it has no clear message that can teach a children a lesson or two except of course, to be afraid of going alone to a library. Now, that probably doesn't sound like much and most authors could not take that and turn it into a really good story, especially not in 87 pages.Doctor Kato has printed out your scans and asked me to go through your thoughts on the book with you. El niño protagonista lee muchísimo, y aunque le gusta, es la clara muestra de que hay ocasiones donde sentimos tanto dolor en nuestro interior, que para protegernos, solemos buscar la manera de refugiarnos en alguna actividad que aleje temporalmente las preocupaciones de nuestra mente. These aren't books he can take home with him, and the old man is rather insistent that he read them there -- never mind that it's near closing time ("They do what I tell them -- if I say it's all right, then it's all right").

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And ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up.I cannot abide people who conjure up a raft of excuses, disparaging the efforts of those who have gone out of their way to help them. I lie here by myself in the dark at two o'clock in the morning and think about that cell in the library. However, it is a book to hold and marvel, and if you allow yourself to, it sure is a hell of a lot of fun. However, I had a feeling the book made a strong point of not giving in to submission when confronted with strangers.

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Berättelsen i sig är ganska hoppig och man får egentligen aldrig någon förklaring till det som händer. Like Kafka, the bizarre lies under a thin layer of normality and mundanity: it’s right there under the surface of our own reality.

Murakami succeeds in creating an aura of suspense and surreality - announced by the sounds "echoing ominously" - as we venture into the maze that is the underground Library, towards the basement and the erudite little old man in Room 107 who contrives to somewhat forcefully lead the Kid to the Reading Room. Everything that comes to pass in The Strange Library, like in so much of Murakami’s fiction, questions the differences between what is real and what is not, and whether such a distinction even matters. This all makes for a wonderful statement about not sitting silent under the authority of tyranny, finding your voice and forging your own way in the world even if it means overthrowing those above you. The Strange Library" is the collector's keepsake to add to the library of every Haruki Murakami fan, and a delightful gift to a reader who can appreciate a well-told imaginative short story in a creatively packaged edition. This] dryly funny, concise fable has all the hallmarks of the author’s deadpan magic, along with some Grimm and Lewis Carroll thrown in for good measure.