![]() ![]() However they are written in such a way that they could be explained as vivid dreams revealing the (unnamed) protagonist’s subconscious. ![]() The closest thing to ‘science fiction’ are the supernatural elements I mentioned before. None of these events are ‘re-imagined’ and the world is not an alternate universe, a dystopian or indeed utopian future. There are real celebrities mentioned, many many real songs from the correct periods mentioned, and references to real events such as the Vietnam war, World War 2, student riots in Japanese universities etc. Murakami is not ‘imagining the future’ as one reviewer mentioned, the book is set in the late 1980’s in Japan, a real time, and in real places. Dance, Dance, Dance, is not science fiction. ![]() With ‘Dance, Dance, Dance’ this was especially irritating, as the blurb and some of the quotes (in my opinion, feel free to correct me) completely misrepresent Murakami’s work. The same goes for many reviewers, or the people who choose which quotes go onto book covers. I honestly believe that the people who write the blurbs on the back of books must not have read the books they are writing about (This is a long running bugbear of mine). ![]()
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