Grad i njegove nestalne zidine
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- Author: Murakami Haruki
- Publisher: Geopoetika
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Excellent
- Code: 77647
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Grad i njegove nestalne zidine
Murakami Haruki
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Haruki Murakami: The City and its Unsteady Walls
The heart of the novel The City and its Unsteady Walls is the novel of the same name published forty years ago. In the Afterword, which he rarely writes in his books, Murakami states that he was aware that the original version did not reach the full potential of the narrative, and concludes: "In the end, I was very relieved to be able to rework [the novella] like this, in a new form." 'The city and its unstable walls'. Because that work all the time represented something that did not give me peace, like a fish bone stuck in my throat."
The three parts of the book, which follow the different stages of the unnamed narrator's life (from adolescence to his forties), take place on two levels - the real world and the parallel world in the city within the walls, and are full of Murakami's recognizable metaphors and motifs: shadows, wells, holes, dreams... Searching for the girl he loved in his youth, the main character actually tries to discover himself, working in both worlds in the library, one where dreams are stored, and the other with books. Time in the city does not flow and there are no hands on the clocks. In the real world, it flows inexorably, but despite this, the ultimate consequence of the passage of time - death - is devoid of its finality.
There are numerous references to other works by Murakami, primarily the Japanese magician of magical realism, Murakami separates his heroes and unites them with their shadows, thus leading to thinking about the relationship between body and soul, heart and mind. He skillfully, in his distinctive style, balances between dreams and consciousness, subconsciousness and consciousness. The boundaries are not where they should be, because the walls, as a symbol of physical, but also psychological and emotional barriers, that separate the two worlds, move by themselves.
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- Author: Murakami Haruki
- Publisher: Geopoetika
- Year of publication:2024
- Place of publication:Beograd
- Pages:503
- Dimensions:14x20 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Excellent
- Binding:Softcover
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