“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
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Magique, hypnotique, Kafka sur le rivage est un roman d'initiation où se déploient, avec une grâce infinie et une imagination stupéfiante, toute la profondeur et la richesse de Haruki Murakami. Une œuvre majeure, qui s'inscrit parmi les plus grands romans d'apprentissage de la littérature universelle. Kafka Tamura, quinze ans, fuit sa maison de Tokyo pour échapper à la terrible prophétie que son père a prononcée contre lui. Nakata, vieil homme simple d'esprit, décide lui aussi de prendre la route, obéissant à un appel impérieux, attiré par une force qui le dépasse. Lancés dans une vaste odyssée, nos deux héros vont croiser en chemin des hommes et des chats, une mère maquerelle fantomatique et une prostituée férue de Hegel, des soldats perdus et un inquiétant colonel, des poissons tombant du ciel, et bien d'autres choses encore ... Avant de voir leur destin converger inexorablement, et de découvrir leur propre vérité.
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“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday live...”
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting betw...”
“My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrass for a moment but not asking a question is embarrasing for a life time”
“When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.”
“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one. The...”
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are draw...”
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little...”
“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this...”
“I have to understand it, accept it, before it's too late.”
“It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.”
“Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked. 'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless.”
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”
“In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two peopl...”
“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you...”
“Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.”
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this...”
“According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three typ...”
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
“Nakata had passed away calmly in his sleep, most likely not thinking of anything. His face was peaceful, with no signs of suffering, regret, or confusion. Very Nakata-like, Hoshino concluded...”
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”