![]() ![]() The novel eschews the directionless male protagonist, and instead focuses on a number of interesting individuals who live the nocturnal city life. The novel is still Murakami-esque, but thankfully it’s not more of the same thing.īefitting its title, the action takes place in the wee hours between midnight and dawn. It’s certainly a different beast from what he’s written before. In After Dark, his latest novel, Murakami goes out on a full experimental journey not only for the novel’s characters but also for himself. Okay, so it’s not much of a change, but I guess he’s got to start somewhere. Critics have denounced his books as being nothing but the same tired story of a directionless male protagonist going nowhere.Īs if in response to this, Murakami took a different tack in Kafka on the Shore, his previous novel, where he discarded his usual first-person narrative, and wrote the book from a third-person perspective and changed his protagonist from a directionless young man. ![]() WHILE Haruki Murakami has his throng of fans and is constantly applauded for his works, he has also been criticised of being repetitive. ![]()
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