First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami5/12/2023 The Weirdness That is Haruki Murakamiįirst Person Singular Stories is a collection of first-person short stories that tell various stories of the narrators’ encounter with something bizarre that helped give them a new perspective on life, save for “The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection”, which is more of an autobiographical retrospective on Murakami’s life. One writer who is able to successfully maintain that balance, however, is the world-renowned novelist Haruki Murakami, and his most recent venture into the genre, First Person Singular: Stories, does as great of a job of keeping to that as his other works. The end result is a story that’s not fully realistic and not fully fantastical, something in-between all of that, and as a result, it ends up not only being confusing for readers to define but a challenge for writers to properly write while properly toeing the line between fantasy and reality. Magical realism is a rather tricky genre for people to get invested in, mostly because of how hard it is for the average person to define.Įssentially, magical realism is the telling of a realistic story with fantastical elements, but the fantastical elements are downplayed, sometimes not even real, and are used primarily to enhance the realistic aspects of the story.
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