Talk:Kafka on the Shore

message: Can somebody provide a link to that website where Murakami posted answers to various questions about the book? Presumably it's in Japanese, but I haven't been able to turn anything up (the Japanese Wikipedia page was not of any help).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.131.41.213 (talk) 07:59, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Questions?

message: I was 20:36, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so. Removed the tag. --Dodo bird 10:40, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub?

message: This section is a bit too speculative, IMO. I'm not sure if it should even be included. If it is, it should be trimmed down to just the hard, cold basics - one of the characteristics of Murakami's writing is that there is never a simple, straightforward explanation for anything, and almost any view on anything can be considered subjective. For example, I agree that the town in this novel is a strong echo of the town in The End of the World, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that the shadow-cutting in The End of the World is an explanation for the half-shadow issue in Kafka on the Shore. TomorrowTime 18:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, half a year later there are still no comments to this, so I removed this section altogether. It's not only highly speculative (i.e. OR), it's also in direct contrast to the author's own words quoted in the following section: Kafka on the Shore contains several riddles, but there aren't any solutions provided. TomorrowTime 20:08, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.I still don't get the connection between Nakata and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.Sorry for my bad English.I'm from Argentina and I still can't write in English very well..186.0.138.18 (talk) 06:06, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connections with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 

message: I'm very dissapointed that you did not get the main point of the novel.
The Plot Summary doesn't show the points that are important.
Kafka Tamura, the 15 year old runaway flies in case of oedipal curse.
And this oedipal curse plays a role in every page of this novel.
He meets a girl called sakura, who is hypotheticly is sister. He rapes her in his dreams.
He gets to know a women called Saeki who takes the role of Kafkas Mother and has sexual intercourse with him and there existing also facts that he has murdered is father.
All these Points lead to the conclusion that he came up to oedipal course.
And after he'd done all these things he goes away from his new circumcises and this makes clear why the novel is called Modern Greek Tragedy.
LG, Elinoi  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elinoi (talk • contribs) 15:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A Letter to the Editor

message: I had to correct the following statement: "The boy named Crow" ("Kafka" means "crow" in Czech).. 
In fact the Czech word for crow is vrána (cf. :cs:vrána). The actual (and exact) meaning of kavka is jackdaw (a bird of Coloeus subgenus), specifically the Western Jackdaw (Coloeus monedula, cf. :cs:kavka) In surnames the middle consonant occurs spelled v or f but pronunciation behind remains the same: . 
While jackdaws and crows (Corone subgenus) are similar closely related birds and visual misidentification sometimes occurs, the semantical border betwen jackdaw nad crow remains clearly drawn in the Czech language, at least when looking from the jackdaw side towards crows. Crows feature more prominently in common parlance (proverbs etc.) - therefore sometimes other crow-like birds (ravens etc.) are called simply crows, but on the other hand if one says kavka he/she certainly refers specifically to a jackdaw and doesn't mean vrána (either of two species native to the Czech lands - Carrion Crow Corvus corone or Hooded Crow Corvus cornix). 
Being unfamiliar with Japanese naming of the various Corvidae I hope this will help to clarify the naming issue at least from Czech perspective. Presumably that inaccuracy/oversimplification arose in chain of translation across several languages. --Miaow Miaow (talk) 10:38, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of the name in Czech 

message: Hegel is mentioned in one scene of the 600-page novel, and his dialectics aren't ruminated upon.  This article's unsupported claim that dialectics "play a role" in the novel is just silly if the person who put it there couldn't be bothered to explain what they meant.58.250.175.74 (talk) 13:08, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hegelian dialectics??? 

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message: Could it be an allusion to the opera "Einstein On The Beach"? IIIIsongIIII (talk) 07:00, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the title an allusion? 

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