Book : Haruki Murakami: An Intimacy of Loss
"Studying Murakami’s protagonists, we may detect that most of them suffer from separation and loss in one way or another, which makes them question the limitations of Knowing the Other, and the extent to which we can say we truly know someone. In this regard, Murakami invents new ways to make reaching and understanding the Other possible. Despite the imposed reality of absence and the impossibility of communication, communicate as a form of intimacy, he creates another form of connectivity that enables the subject to enter into a vortex of connections with the Other, making this connection a hinge to the self itself. We can observe that for Murakami, it is this longing and search for the Other that leads to the self ; in the sense that the Other functions as a key element to unwrap the dark secrets of the self, and hence, of the shadow. Indeed , this connection happens through the well. The well here functions as the passage (territory) through which Okada enters into connection with."
Extract from Part Two: The Reality of the Shadow Focus on The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, page 131.
