In the article, they argue that Murakami writes to “Expose the steady decay of individual identity” Using your own personal experience in reading Murakami’s works, do you agree or disagree? Why?
The article states that Murakami's underlying question is that how can the protagonist create relationships with others and identify himself to prove to himself that he even exists? Do you feel that this was the case for Watanabe in Norwegian Wood? Why?
The author of the article coined the term “Textualization of the Inner Mind” which describes the process where a nostalgic object placed in the protagonist’s mind leads to “Narrator's obsessive desire for the object to bring it magically from inside the mind out into the external world.” Why do you think Murakami incorporated this in his stories?
The article states that some believe that Murakami tries to “Dissolve proper names into fixed signifiers is to dissolve them into bundles of predicative terms, or to put it another way, into bundles of generalized concepts," Do you agree with this statement? Why?
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