![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a master class in cohesion-and restraint. Murakamis Short Story: The Wind Up Bird And Tuesday Women 1081 Words 5 Pages Murakami delights the readers of his short stories which convey his idea on themes such as the absurdities of daily life, quirky characters and their strange pre-occupations and the changing status of men and women. Each story offers a fortified shot of literary enrichment, a dose of characters and genres and settings we didn’t even know we needed, but that now feels vital and enlivening. In 'The wind up bird and Tuesday women' the narrator clearly mirrors it pretty strongly. It is still some of Japanese’s tradition for women becoming house wife. Everything one could possibly need is dispensed via dense, tiny, mysterious pellets. Focusing on Murakami’s hidden message, gender differences and status, it may seem significant that it reflects on culture of Japanese gender inequality. Rivka Galchen’s debut collection (which follows her critically lauded novel, Atmospheric Disturbances) is like a multivitamin. Reading short story collections-no matter how cohesive, how gracefully threaded together, how substantive-has always left me feeling like I recently housed some Chinese food: disgustingly overwhelmed for a short time, and then starved for more nutrients. ![]() It happened last year with George Saunders’s masterful, much-feted Tenth of December, but the last (and only) time before that may have been college, when a knowing instructor passed me Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes. ![]() Typically it takes bribery to get me to read straight through a short story collection. ![]()
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