PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Strange_Library_-_Haruki_Murakami.pdf, The_Strange_Library_-_Haruki_Murakami.epub So just because I don't exist in the sheep man's world, it doesn't mean that I don't exist at all.The boy is used to the library being a place where he can find the answers to his questions. Welcome . . . once again, to Murakamiland: sheep men, waifs, quests, attentiveness to little (odd) things, a labyrinth, a stairway down . . . absurdity and irrationality, the tension between the fantastical and the everyday, real and unreal, sadness and loss, then sudden shifts out of the blue, and plenty of the plain runic. . . . [ The Strange Library] plumb[s] the kind of questions that leave us all wishing for more room to breathe: the singular and ever-solitary individual . . . the loss of identity (for better or worse), groping in the dark, self-understanding in an unknowable world, the dignity of idiosyncrasies. . . . The spirit and tone of the writing: As if Murakami is driving down a strange road, not know[ing] what's to come around the next curve: alert, aware, but as in the dark as the reader. He is, however, a really good driver." -- The Christian Science Monitor Mi principal razón para leer esta obra fue por la portada, ya que se ve muy bonita, y porque quería procurar acercarme un poco a la pluma del reconocido Haruki Murakami. Sé que el autor tiene novelas muy reconocidas y valoradas, y sé que debí intentar leer alguna de esas obras para crear en mi mente un perfil más sólido de lo que es Murakami, pero fue un periodo en el que estaba buscando una lectura ligera porque andaba leyendo obras muy extensas, así que creí que este libro era una buena opción para lo que estaba buscando. Y bueno, de hecho lo fue. En La biblioteca secreta nos encontramos un texto muy fácil de leer, con capítulos efímeros, y que podemos terminar en menos de veinte minutos. Además, las ilustraciones del libro son geniales, por lo que cada una de ellas es un perfecto complemento que sirve para acompañarnos en nuestro pequeño viaje. Entonces, ¿cuál es el problema y por qué la razón de mi calificación? Pues bien, este es el motivo.

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Can a font be heart-breaking? I didn’t think so, until now. . . . More than anything, I found myself free-associating while reading The Strange Library: Kafka, Dalí, Nabokov, and Poe all came to mind.”—Jon Morris, PopMatters Why did something like this have to happen to me? All I did was go to the library to borrow some books.’ Unfortunately they do not speak English, so I will act as an interpreter through the procedure" said Moriko with a smile. "If you would follow me please." Haruki Murakami’s The Strange Library is like every childhood nightmare rolled into one. First, the familiar is rendered unfamiliar by the discovery of hidden spaces heretofore unknown. Suddenly the most innocent thing is seen to have a sinister underside that is at once absurd and strangely logical.Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this is a unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans. This is a book you need to hold, touch, and smell. My edition (illustrated at the top of this review) has an old-fashioned library card wallet glued to the outside front cover. No doubt there is symbolic meaning in the sheep man and the voiceless girl. Perhaps they represent parts of himself. I have not read Murakami’s other novels, so I do not know how the bird, the sheep man, and other motifs figure in his oeuvre. But I too have my dream motifs. I am no stranger to labyrinths. They are a standard feature of my dreams along with winding staircases and hidden rooms. The book is at once fun and frustrating: the fold-over cover panels are peculiar, and the illustrations colorful, but the story itself is enigmatic almost to the point of being opaque. The overall effect leaves you scratching your head and wondering whether some publicity material might have been helpful, after all.

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In November 2014 The Strange Library was published in Japan by Shinchosha with illustrations by Kat Menschik [6] Several editions then appeared in translation, including the ones listed below. [7] [8] Editions in Translation [ edit ] Language This dryly funny, concise fable features all the hallmarks of Murakami's deadpan magic, along with splashes of Lewis Carroll and the brothers Grimm." - Publishers WeeklyEdgar Allan Poe, an author who came to mind at times when I was reading The Strange Library, says that a short story is one that can be read in a single sitting, and most readers will manage to finish this book accordingly. Yet, like Poe’s own stories, many shorts also demand to be reread, and this is the case with Murakami’s tale, as well. Well, no time for delays. The Doctors are waiting". And she guided me down a set of corridors with carpeted walls in an avocado shade. At the end of one corridor were a pair of doors like those in a hospital. She pushed them open and guided me through. In the dream world, everything is slightly askew. The rules of reality don’t apply. Two people can be one and one can be two. A person can be both himself and someone else entirely. In the dream world, all the logic of Aristotle gives way to irrational leaps of the imagination. One thing leads to another, not by cause-and-effect, but by thought and association. Somehow I felt at home in this world. At least most of the time. Moriko wore a small orange hat and had a distinctive port-wine stain on the left side of her face. Despite this, and yet possibly because of this, she was achingly beautiful. Dr Kato said that he was inspired to build the instrument during his time in an internment camp during World War II. Would you like to hear about it?"