![]() ![]() Murakami's ingenuity and inventiveness cannot fail to intoxicate this is a bravura performance. Intertwined with the agent's attempts to understand his plight are scenes from The End of the World. Subconsciously, the focus of this piece is the trauma of World War II and the Holocaust. But after interference from a scientist and from the Semiotecs, a rival intelligence unit, the subconscious story is about to replace the agent's own perceptions of reality. Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a conscious mix of genres and themes combined to present an engaging story. Thanks to a wonderland of technology, an intelligence agent has had his brain implanted with a ``profoundly personal drama'' that allows him to ``launder'' and ``shuffle'' classified data, and all that he knows of the drama is its password, The End of the World. Embellished with witticisms, wordplay and allusions to such figures as Stendhal heroes and Lauren Bacall, the tale is set in a Tokyo of the near future. The plot here is so elaborate that about 100 pages, one-fourth of the book, elapse before its various elements begin to fit together, but Murakami's lightning prose more than sustains the reader. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - A Haruki Murakami Playlist 1. ![]() There ought to be a name for the genre Murakami ( A Wild Sheep Chase ) has invented, and it might be the literary pyrotechno-thriller. If you answered, Eat Italian food, have sex, and listen to Bob Dylan, pick up a copy of Haruki Murakami’s 1985 novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and read it. ![]()
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