The followers of the great Japanese writer Haruki Murakami We approach each new publication by this author with the singular desire of a new reading therapy, a session of narrative hypnosis practically necessary in our days.
The arrival of the long novel The death of the commander it becomes a reading balm to accompany the leisure of reading and transform it into an approach to characters stripped from the inside out, voyeurism of the soul for readers in need of discovering each sensual concept of life.
Murakami confronts us with the worldly abysses, with the small voids of the self, with an icy solitude among the immensity of a world that refuses to stop for nothing. And only Murakami immediately offers his placebo of hope, ending up balancing the scale of life made literature.
Subjective ramblings aside, in book 1 of The death of the commander We found a novel that needs a continuation scheduled for next year, finishing composing in book 2 a puzzle only at the height of Murakami and that, now, will end up disturbing to madness while waiting for its final resolution .
On this occasion, art becomes a necessary argument to address the atavistic need for expression of the human being from the artistic point of view. It is clear that the circumstances of the novel are limited to a current time in a labyrinthine plot with evocations of Dorian Gray and that painting forgotten in an attic ...
Because it is precisely that, the discovery of canvas titled The death of the commander, which marks a starting point towards the mutation of the protagonist, in whose world symbols associated with that work are perceived that ends up providing a magical succession of reality, perhaps in a simple subjective impression or perhaps as a new destiny traced since the chance discovery.
The most interesting thing about the novel is how the world of a protagonist that is decomposing after the sum of failures, is adopting a more surreal air in a strange connection between a painter of the painting that will never be there, the protagonist and a neighbor of the house in which protagonist has withdrawn from the world. A captivating triangle of characters who claim and manage to focus all our attention.
In a plot open to the varied interpretations and the double and triple readings, we end up facing the meaning of art. The necessary double and polarized intention of all artistic interpretation: from the prospect of a reality not only limited to the senses, to the introspection of the reasons that can lead our senses to reflect the created world "in our image and likeness." Yes, pure megalomania, as gods of our loneliness and our decisions.
You can now buy the novel The Death of the Commander, the beginning of Haruki Murakami's most ambitious project, here: