Week Three: Asian Horrors: Vengeful Spirits
Murakami's work is really figurative and methaporical, seeming sometimes nonexistent. He wants the reader to be actively thinking and figuring things out, like a puzzle. Murakami's work is very specific for combining the real with the surreal, the conciousness with the subconciousness.
Furthermore, this week's reading was A Wild Sheep Chase by Murakami, and by reading it I could see that everything the characters are chasing after is really a metaphor, and that something, seems really hard to grab. This is one of the reasons I love Asian literature, because of the ability that the authors have to leave the reader with some sort of uncertainty, making them feel and connect on a level that feels really personal. Asian literature "forces" you to think about what you are reading and forces you to connect you with your own personal experiences in order to truly get a message out of it. This makes the readers connect on a deeper level to the piece, making them more intellectual as well because he leaves the audience the possibility of creating their own idea of what the characters might be chasing.
Finally, reading Kwaidan stories was a really nice but different experience. Despite the differences between Western and Asian horror, they both include the personificaion of ghosts, but the difference is that in the Kwaidan stories the author goes back to the roots and tradition of the culture, yet in Western horror not so much.What is interesting about the Kwaidan is that the author is slowly trying to immerge you into the story, and it might take you some time to really see the horror, but as the stories keep developing it becomes more and more disturbing, as uncertain elements appear in the reading.
Furthermore, this week's reading was A Wild Sheep Chase by Murakami, and by reading it I could see that everything the characters are chasing after is really a metaphor, and that something, seems really hard to grab. This is one of the reasons I love Asian literature, because of the ability that the authors have to leave the reader with some sort of uncertainty, making them feel and connect on a level that feels really personal. Asian literature "forces" you to think about what you are reading and forces you to connect you with your own personal experiences in order to truly get a message out of it. This makes the readers connect on a deeper level to the piece, making them more intellectual as well because he leaves the audience the possibility of creating their own idea of what the characters might be chasing.
Finally, reading Kwaidan stories was a really nice but different experience. Despite the differences between Western and Asian horror, they both include the personificaion of ghosts, but the difference is that in the Kwaidan stories the author goes back to the roots and tradition of the culture, yet in Western horror not so much.What is interesting about the Kwaidan is that the author is slowly trying to immerge you into the story, and it might take you some time to really see the horror, but as the stories keep developing it becomes more and more disturbing, as uncertain elements appear in the reading.
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