I will demonstrate how, through SF, Murakami is able to give form to an unseen crisis of memory in postwar Japan, a crisis marked by the unspeakable shock of war and by the trauma that results from the intrusion of artificial memories upon one’s consciousness of history. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1st Printing, VG) by Haruki Murakami, Vintage International, Trade. 1Q84 could be a contender, but I never found it so overt.

This paper argues that Haruki Murakami uses the mode of SF in his novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, to explore how mnemonic substitutes interfere with the complex process of remembering World War II in Japan. Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly. Haruki Murakami is one of my favourite authors, though Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of The World is the perhaps the most sci-fi-like of his novels that I’ve yet encountered. SF is both rooted in the “real” and “estranged” from reality, and thus able to give form to impossible injuries. I am interested in how the unseen wounding of mnemonic intervention is registered in the “impossible” language of speculative fiction (SF). In Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), I used two versions of I (using the pronouns boku and the more formal watashi, in alternating chapters), which I think was an. These transformations involve the incorporeal but deeply felt, violent dislocations of human experience, traumas that are grounded in reality but which challenge symbolic resources because they are difficult to articulate. The extensive use of mnemonic devices, for instance, has redefined the subject by externalizing aspects of inner consciousness. Modern information technologies have radically transfigured human experience. IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 10(2). Violent Memory: Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

Author: Netty Mattar, International Islamic University Malaysia, MalaysiaĬitation: Mattar, N.

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