tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366395476064817599.post5127718471774702508..comments2023-06-20T09:05:15.101+01:00Comments on Be Careful! Your Hand!: The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki MurakamiAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04384428534343183056noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366395476064817599.post-91827460497770873792014-05-19T18:34:21.292+01:002014-05-19T18:34:21.292+01:00My interpretation allows me confirm that there IS ...My interpretation allows me confirm that there IS a relationship. I think there is a pattern in the purpose in general. By that I mean that surrealism is used in these pieces of literature for similar reasons. I believe each of these "weird and strange" events and such depict our own subconscious effort to suppress our own "weird and strange" thoughts and feelings. These short stories simply reveal the creative potential of our subconscious fears and desires, such as in the kangaroo communique, where the narrator cannot censor his desire for intercourse with a woman he has never met, or in sleep, where a woman wishes to escape her routine, ordinary life through insomnia and eventually is attacked by what can be interpreted as her own dissatisfaction of her life, therefore she may be attempting to finish herself, even though the plot is clearly an attack from someone else and she is panicking, and in A Slow Boat to China, where the narrator is made to feel like he doesn't belong and he confronts this feeling by referring to the Chinese as the separate entity he can't quite ever keep a hold of or even reach. Maybe it isn't a direct relationship, but it is certainly something I could keep on making connections with the other short stories in the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366395476064817599.post-91886742240073617992014-03-10T03:49:29.226+00:002014-03-10T03:49:29.226+00:00Great question! There are some thematic similariti...Great question! There are some thematic similarities like there are in much of Murakami's work but I don't think there's an explicit relationship between any of the stories.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384428534343183056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366395476064817599.post-5242871738194623062014-03-08T14:54:00.714+00:002014-03-08T14:54:00.714+00:00Is there a relationship between the short stories?...Is there a relationship between the short stories??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com