Why do his characters speak in such a matter-of-fact way? Is that his style? Are Japanese people simply more honest? Or are the translations of his novels bad?
>>9300740
Little bit of everything.
>>9300740
Yes.
>>9300740
>>9300740
Just a thought : his stories doesn't focus on the characters but rather on the events that are taking place, characters are just "answering" to the events and not building them, murakami emphases that by giving them "straightforward" voices, this way of seeing one as a piece of a chain of event, as a part of the universe just as important/unimportant as a wave or a mountain can be found in buddhist littérature
>>9300802
>implying it's planned
He just makes shit up as he goes, and this is his idea of how normal people talk.
>>9300980
>implying art is planned
>implying art is dependent of the author's will
You should improve on your criticisms skills
>>9301075
rekt him