The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Matthew Carl Strecher

Author:Matthew Carl Strecher [Strecher, Matthew Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT008030 Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese
ISBN: 9780816691982
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2014-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

It’s Not Easy Being Divine

Only recently has Murakami begun writing about the “sacred,” and the author might even be a little uncomfortable with such a term, but it is the right one, for ever since the short story “All children of the gods dance,” he has been inching his way toward the production of divinely inspired—indeed, immaculately conceived—heroes and heroines.

This began, as noted near the beginning of this chapter, with the character Yoshiya, whose name means “goodness,” and whose mother, according to the narrative, took every possible precaution against getting pregnant yet still conceived Yoshiya. If the story related to Yoshiya can be believed, she had a physical affair with a man, was careful to use a condom, yet still conceived. The doctor, believing that she used the condom incorrectly, demonstrates its use to her himself—in bed. Again she conceives, and this child is Yoshiya. The doctor denies responsibility, and Yoshiya is determined to find this mysterious doctor and confront him with his patrimony. His mother, however, has a rather different interpretation of the story. She tells Yoshiya:

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