The Municipal Library ‘Palau de l’Exposició’ becomes again the venue of the meeting between members of the Reading Club of Friends and Former Students of the University of Valencia to host a new meeting which, in this occasion, will reflect on reading the novel ‘Kafka on the Shore”, by the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The meeting will be Tuesday, 4 March, at 18:00.
‘Kafka on the Shore’ was proclaimed the best novel in 2005 by critics of the New York Times. The book tells two different stories, but they are interrelated. One of the stories is about Kafka Tamura, a name inspired by the writer Franz Kafka. He is a young boy of fifteen years old, who has lost his mother and sister, and he runs away from his father’s home. Finally, he will be involved in a grisly murder. The other story is about Satoru Nakata, an old man with a tragic life who is disabled in World War II and who now devotes to search for cats which are lost in his neighbourhood. Finally, both stories will collide, but in a more metaphysical than real level.
The production of Murakami has generated numerous awards such as the Franz Kafka, the Jerusalem, the International of Catalonia, among other, although his work has been also criticized by the traditional Japanese literature, since it proposes a surreal fiction that focuses on concepts as alienation and loneliness.
Last update: 1 de march de 2014 08:00.
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