Murakami’s Power of Uncertainty
Murakami is one of Japan’s greatest novelists if not the greatest Japanese author of all time. In 2004 Murakami’s book After Dark was published. After Dark entwines the evolution of Murakami’s evolutionary, surrealistic, prose in a way that is mind-boggling and it certainly will tell you that his originality like none other is expressively explosive. The story follows a young 19 year-old named Mari Asai who is contemplating the meaning of life, and the absurdity of being her sister.
The story begins with her reading in a local metropolitan restaurant in Tokyo. She is shy introvert who barely talks in dialogue, but when she does she does so with utter honesty. A young extroverted musician Tetsuya Takahashi appearing at times to be an ambivert from a college is passionately aroused by the somewhat out-of place void wanderer Mari Asai who barely makes any attempt to like Takahashi in conversation. Throughout the book the plot is defined by their existential conversation on the meaning of life Takahaski is an uninspiring law student talks about the problem of good & evil that justice is merely a one sided concept, or as Nietzsche said “Man will desire oblivion rather than not desire at all.”
This contemplation communicated by Nietzsche represents the undoing justice does on the subject of who had a duty to perform an act of malevolence. Murakami writes good examples…
