All tagged Japanese Literature
Literary masochism required.
His penetrating insight that life is in essence a meaningless process of gradual, inexorable death lead him to his degradation. His feelings that he is a disqualified human being, is driven by his sensitivity to the frailty of human bonds in the urban world. Death is the only escape.
There is the past and death. Then there is future and life, served on a silver platter, which one do you take? Seems like a no brainer. But what if the dead carry so much of ourselves that living without them is not quite living anymore? What if the prospect of the future feels like a brutal betrayal of the dead? Norwegian Wood is a sprawling peak into the lives of a group of severely broken youths confronting the realities of emptiness.
