Open AccessSelf-Reconciliation and Starting a New Life in the Novel Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Author(s) -
Sherzad Tawfeq Ali
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
govarî zankoy ṛapeṛîn
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2522-7130
pISSN - 2410-1036
DOI - 10.26750/vol(9).no(2).paper19
Subject(s) - dream , vision , narrative , realm , everyday life , point (geometry) , field (mathematics) , psychology , aesthetics , sociology , epistemology , literature , history , art , philosophy , anthropology , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , neuroscience , pure mathematics
In Kafka on the Shore, Murakami mentions some ideas about how personal lives are reconstructed by long journey in the novel. Rejecting old life and starting new life occur through the field of signs, narrative and memory. Although, personalityreconstruction receipts venue in the internal realm, psychological and the social. The research applies visions from conceptual metaphor, dream, and mirrored stage by (Lacan, 1949;1982). Interface between the reader's knowledge and the language of a literary text through psychological speaking make reader's cognitive development. This study is an effort to show how the reader can innovate his /her point of view and thoughts. By exposing unfamiliar the everyday experience, knowledge and images, Murakami provides new numerous knowledge and ideas that go against the reader's established knowledge and in result modify reader’s point of view to (things) and human in life.