This chapter explores Haruki Murakami’s latest novel The City and Its Uncertain Walls [Machi to sono futashika na Kabe] published in 2023. In view of the Covid-19 pandemic and the title of this work that signifies a place “surrounded by walls,” the connection between Murakami’s fictional works with actual events as well as the writer’s cosmopolitan commitment as a novelist is discussed.

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Murakami and His Cosmopolitan Commitment in the Era of Walls

  • Tomoki Wakatsuki

摘要

This chapter explores Haruki Murakami’s latest novel The City and Its Uncertain Walls [Machi to sono futashika na Kabe] published in 2023. In view of the Covid-19 pandemic and the title of this work that signifies a place “surrounded by walls,” the connection between Murakami’s fictional works with actual events as well as the writer’s cosmopolitan commitment as a novelist is discussed.