#Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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[catmint1]

The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.

—Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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[alittlebitmara]

Literally me

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[sofiaisanalien]

Book recommendations?

Mmmm let me see, I think I like many genres but I only hate romance, the typical "man×woman" romance, like Colleen Hoover books. Here are some of the books that I like:

Radio Silence, by Alice Oseman (and Solitaire even though I'm only halfway through it)

The catcher in the rye, by J.D.Salinger

Almond, by Wong-Pyung Sohn

The perks of being a wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky

The stranger, by Albert Camus

The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides

Literally any tale by Edgar Allan Poe

The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage, by Haruki Murakami

No longer human, by Osamu Dazai

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

[hiraya-sa-dilim]

OMORI is a Murakami novel.

Protag is a passive as all hell + emotionally stinted boy

Woman close to protag appears to have commited suicide

Said woman causes abandonment issues + depression in protag

Protag's dam against his Pacific Ocean of emotions about as tough as a baby's eyelids

Subtle hints throughout canon at protag's raging anger issues

Protag + at least one other character delusional

Protag has a mystical (and apparently tougher) alter ego

Metaphysical cat guides protag to a plot point (and may be cut open)

Protag's bestie is queer

Oedipal shit (Sunny loses his eye to the truth)

Set in two different worlds, one magical, one not

Protag has a falling out with his closest friends

Protag + at least one other character potentially criminal

Strong femme character stark contrast to overcooked noodles masc protag

Background character constantly forewarning about death

Neighbors/background characters so normal it's borderline wacky

Horrific creatures but you can't tell if they're "real"

Final climax a clash between the real and the metaphysical

Absent father and uninformed mother

Sink or swim allegories

Aforementioned woman is fucked up + has unexplored issues for another novel

Protag feels colorless in contrast to his friends

Morally ambiguous protags

Nostalgia constipating everyone

T r a i n s

Literally the same genre

Classical music and its performers discussed extensively/a major plot point

Protag enters a magical world but may choose to leave it

Someone has an artistic hobby

Ghosts and/or dead people

Protag relies on more socially adept friends

Leaves you feeling punched in the end

#omori #omocat #haruki murakami #writing #games #to be fair i've only read #norwegian wood #colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage #kafka on the shore #but i think i got the general gist of murakami-esque #feel free to add on to this btw

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years of Pilgrimage: A Novel

By Haruki Murakami.

Design by John Gall.

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss." [from Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage :: Haruki Murakami]

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[jem-in-eyee]

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry // ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage’ by Haruki Murakami // ‘blue is the warmest colour’

—wounds

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[stairwaytoeast]

"As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves."

is it possible to be able to know who i am and for my essence to prevail at the same time?

#haruki murakami #colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage #my own question cause this quote keeps wandering through my thoughts

[streamofsalmon]

Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru

I finished Colorless Tsukuru. At first, I was engaged with the premise of the novel, as time moved on, the writing became less convincing. Some scenes were too long, the messages and themes haphazardly drawn, all while the main character was a typical Murakami character, he lacked a depth and a charm similar to the other books' main characters. Overall, I struggled to finish it and my enjoyment steadily decreased the more I read. Shino's SA warped the novel's tone and snapped out of touch. Is our main character the rapist? Is he lying to us, the readers? To himself? Oh, no one believes her anyway despite believing her upfront AND she's lying anyway? Typically Murakami draws blanks for us as readers to scribble away what we believe. A fine line was drawn. Tsukuru did not do it. His friends believed him. Shino simply used her brutal assault as a way to break up the inevitable end of their friend group. Really? While this is the 3rd fiction book I've read from Murakami, his literary tactics failed him here. The buildup did not feel 3-dimensional, rather the beginning, middle, and end, struggle to feel cohesive and relevant. Symbols and messages were tossed into ill-fitting scenes rather than sung together from the beginning. My least favorite has to be when we learn about the six-fingered hand from an overdrawn workplace conversation.

Murakami is an interested and beautiful writer, but 'Colorless Tsukuru,' unforunately failed to convince me of what was offered. I will still keep reading him, but I did not enjoy this novel.

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The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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[mssaeki]

“Có lẽ mình là một con người rỗng tuyếch, không có nội dung, Tsukuru nghĩ thế. Thế nhưng chính vì thiếu đi cái bên trong, nên dù ngắn ngủi, vẫn có những người tìm thấy một chốn nương thân ở trong đó.”

- Tazaki Tsukuru không màu và những năm tháng hành hương -

Haruki Murakami

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[colibridelaluminio]

“And you came to Finland to build a station?" "No I came here on vacation to visit a friend." "That's good," the driver said. "Vacations and friends are the two best things in life.”

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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[apesoformythoughts]

«De acuerdo, te ves como un recipiente vacío. ¿Y qué? ¿Qué importa eso? Si es así, entonces eres un recipiente maravilloso y muy atractivo. Nadie se comprende de verdad a sí mismo, ¿no crees? Basta con que sigas siendo un bonito recipiente. Un recipiente que cause buena impresión y en el que a alguien, de pronto, le apetezca meter algo».

— Los años de peregrinación del chico sin color

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