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This chapter explores the way Murakami lets his protagonists engage with their past in an ethico-philosophical manner. It contends that the liberation from the past they seek opens questions that range beyond psychological and sociological theory and require reflection on the nature of human existence in general. Ultimately, to escape the inertia that Murakami’s protagonists seem destined to by their (traumatic) past, they are called upon to recognize potentiality within the fabric of existence. This insight, which changes not only their understanding of the boundary of their own identity but of the boundaries of all things, allows them to discover and occupy an open space within what seemed to have become a stultified life.

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Past Colours, Past Boundaries, Past Psychology: Existential Liberation in the Fiction of Haruki Murakami

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    2025年

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  • Ype De Boer

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This chapter explores the way Murakami lets his protagonists engage with their past in an ethico-philosophical manner. It contends that the liberation from the past they seek opens questions that range beyond psychological and sociological theory and require reflection on the nature of human existence in general. Ultimately, to escape the inertia that Murakami’s protagonists seem destined to by their (traumatic) past, they are called upon to recognize potentiality within the fabric of existence. This insight, which changes not only their understanding of the boundary of their own identity but of the boundaries of all things, allows them to discover and occupy an open space within what seemed to have become a stultified life.