![]() Like other Murakami characters, the artist abandoned his vocation - painting portraits - and planned to live a modest life in the secluded house while teaching a local art class once a week. Informed by his wife of six years that she couldn’t live with him anymore, he had taken off on a road trip north and settled in the home of his friend’s father, a famous painter named Tomohiko Amada who now has dementia. In the beginning of the story, Murakami’s protagonist, an unnamed portrait artist, says he wants to do his utmost to “set down a systematic, logical account” of what happened to him during the nine months of “inexplicable chaos and confusion” he experienced while living in a house in the mountains. ![]() In Murakami’s Killing Commendatore (translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen), another masterpiece as good as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–’95) and 1Q84 (2009–’10), both the characters and the reader traverse such magnificent subterranean chambers. Maximos in the Philokalia, “is the hidden sanctuary of wisdom within the intellect he who enters it will mystically perceive the spiritual knowledge that is beyond perception.” It doesn’t seem possible that such miraculous things exist, but they do. The caves link to each other through narrow passageways, and every time you head into another tight tunnel you come out into a cavern even more enormous and deep and lovely. But then you arrive at these enormous underground caves with beautiful stalagmite and stalactite formations. You’re digging along through everyday rock. READING A BIG Haruki Murakami novel is like tunneling beneath the earth.
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