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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Murakami scrive bene, ma la sua fissazione per le erezioni rende difficile godersi anche solo un suo racconto. Diverse di queste storie erano semplicemente grottesche e le plot line non venivano risolte. Un racconto senza un finale d’effetto è un racconto incompleto per quanto mi riguarda. Murakami fa un ampio uso delle similitudini: a volte sono bellissime e centrate, altre sono campate in aria e non c’entrano nulla con il testo.
Organo indipendente è decisamente il pezzo che mi è piaciuto di più di Murakami fino ad ora. Il protagonista e lo scrittore che descrive la vicenda sono dotati di una sorprendente intelligenza emotiva, per essere dei personaggi di Murakami. Il protagonista, nonostante induca molte donne a tradire i loro fidanzati e mariti, sembra un tipo rispettabile. Mentre leggevo, credevo che fosse lui l’organo indipendente. Invece, l‘organo indipendente è una teoria con la quale si conclude la storia. È davvero un bel racconto dotato di una bella trama, ma non concordo affatto con la teoria finale. Forse, l’unica idea intrigante è che ci sia un organo fuori dal nostro controllo che ci fa innamorare contro la nostra volontà.
Organo indipendente è decisamente il pezzo che mi è piaciuto di più di Murakami fino ad ora. Il protagonista e lo scrittore che descrive la vicenda sono dotati di una sorprendente intelligenza emotiva, per essere dei personaggi di Murakami. Il protagonista
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content
Moderate: Stalking
Minor: Alcohol
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Murakami is one of my favorite authors. His prose is evocative and deceptively simple in how it draws you in and reveals a beautiful and complex world. I love the storylines he creates, the way he shapes his writing. And I love his characters, the male ones…
Murakami, quite simply, does not treat female characters with the same depth or respect as the men. They end up painted in one dimensional strokes or made into mysterious figures we can never understand, because who really understands women, am I right fellas? It’s insulting frankly. This book really hits on that, so even though I enjoy the writing, I can’t give it more than two stars.
I mean, a character flat out says women have a special organ for lying without a sign. What more do you have to say?
Murakami, quite simply, does not treat female characters with the same depth or respect as the men. They end up painted in one dimensional strokes or made into mysterious figures we can never understand, because who really understands women, am I right fellas? It’s insulting frankly. This book really hits on that, so even though I enjoy the writing, I can’t give it more than two stars.
I mean, a character flat out says women have a special organ for lying without a sign. What more do you have to say?
A horrifying glimpse into the male psyche. Not sure if it’s one that I needed. Despite of this the story telling is beautiful. Every time he loses me he reels me back in. I just wish I could read his work without rolling my eyes every few pages or so.
My fav stories were Drive My Car, Samsa in Love, and Men Without Women.
My fav stories were Drive My Car, Samsa in Love, and Men Without Women.
Beautifully told stories that will shock you, make you laugh and make you very very sad, in my case anyway. The different ways in which the absence or impossibility of women affect the lives of men in these stories are interesting and complex which I loved the most out of it.
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami is a collection of seven short stories, being men without women the premise that tides them all together. In one way or another, men have lost a woman. To me, it is the inhabited space the women have left what Murakami is aiming for: as if blindfolded, he's trying to give sense to what has and hasn't been left behind.
I picked this book because I had just finished the audio-book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and was eager to read more by him. I thought about continuing with his first book ever, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but because it's rather long and I wanted to discuss it with my Japanese English student, I chose Men Without Women for the intriguing title and the short-story format.
What I liked most was that, for the first time, I knew enough of Murakami as to be able to find him all over the pages: baseball, bars, running, music, jazz, reading long books, childless couples, cats. It felt as if I were collecting little treasures along the way. As for the stories, my favorites were Samsa in Love, Kino, and Scheherazade. There are affairs, solitude, secrets. The mystery involving not only the women but also the men transported me to their worlds. Additionally, I want to reread some more from allusions he makes: Kafka's Metamorphosis because of Samsa in Love, as well as Kokoro by Soseki Natsume mentioned in Scheherazade.
Now that I'm done, I'm curious about two more things. One, I'd like to learn more about the book by Hemingway that shares the same title, Men Without Women. Two, is there a book of short stories by Murakami that will swipe me off my feet? Any suggestions?
I picked this book because I had just finished the audio-book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and was eager to read more by him. I thought about continuing with his first book ever, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but because it's rather long and I wanted to discuss it with my Japanese English student, I chose Men Without Women for the intriguing title and the short-story format.
What I liked most was that, for the first time, I knew enough of Murakami as to be able to find him all over the pages: baseball, bars, running, music, jazz, reading long books, childless couples, cats. It felt as if I were collecting little treasures along the way. As for the stories, my favorites were Samsa in Love, Kino, and Scheherazade. There are affairs, solitude, secrets. The mystery involving not only the women but also the men transported me to their worlds. Additionally, I want to reread some more from allusions he makes: Kafka's Metamorphosis because of Samsa in Love, as well as Kokoro by Soseki Natsume mentioned in Scheherazade.
Now that I'm done, I'm curious about two more things. One, I'd like to learn more about the book by Hemingway that shares the same title, Men Without Women. Two, is there a book of short stories by Murakami that will swipe me off my feet? Any suggestions?
I was still myself, yet at the same time I was something different. It was a wonderful place to be.
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
although i really did enjoy the stories drive my car and scheherazade, i definitely wish i had never read the words innocent penis…..was that necessary…..
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes