Tantan to nagareru kono sekai ga nandaka boku dake o koko ni oiteku you de ❋ Unknown (2009)
I saw Ima, boku wa and I thought Chikuma was completely believable as a hikkikomori. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Incidentally, I saw Ima, boku wa at the ICA in London, where the seats have name plates for the donors who paid for them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ironically, seeing them as real people makes them, to boku, less real. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The story then cuts to boku naked, in bed with a woman. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Jesus Ruiz Mantilla, “Murakami Haruki: boku no shōsetsu wa, konton to shita jida ni motomerareru,” Kōdansha, Courrier Jul. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Other than a surprising encounter with a repairman, they interact only with boku and almost seem like figments of his imagination Rubin 54-55. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Though written in 1985, “The Twins and the Sunken Continent” takes place between Pinball, 1973 (1980) and A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and explores the shock boku feels when he suddenly remembers his old girlfriends, the eponymous twins with whom he lived in Pinball. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Without going into detail, he spends less time developing these ideas than he did in either of these works, and the details we finally get towards the end of Book 2 feel scattered and intangible — certainly no match for the golden flocks of unicorns, their life-cycle in the Town, and their relationship to the watashi of Hard-boiled Wonderland and the boku of the End of the World. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Killing time in a cafe before a meeting with a client, boku is surprised to stumble upon their picture in a magazine: ❋ Unknown (2009)
Experienced Murakami readers will recognize connections with his old works, and if they strain their eyes hard enough, they might even be able to see flashes of the old boku as he is bricked in for good by the third-person narrative in 1Q84. ❋ Unknown (2009)
After writing Norwegian Wood, Murakami wanted to revisit the characters from A Wild Sheep Chase Rubin 168-169, but Dance Dance Dance, the result of seeing those characters again, feels different from previous bokus; it shows us that boku on an expense account is no boku at all. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Inside, a man is building a wall, and boku stops to watch him work: ❋ Unknown (2009)
As the story opens, they have been gone for six months, and boku has been working. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Murakami continued to write first-person narratives for years to come, but “The Twins” is his last true boku. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Seeing them photographed out in the real world with real world clothes and makeup on, interacting with real other men, predictably confuses boku who returns to his office and examines the photograph closely with a magnifying glass. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The twins have flown off, leaving boku in a fuzzy and depressing world that can, at best, be gotten used to. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Like boku, some of the characters keep memories so deep within themselves that it becomes a defining point of their existence. ❋ Unknown (2009)
To tell you the truth, I have trouble reading myself into boku so I just assumed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
