Interests… cats, aiding others, and good food. The pay isn't much, but Nakata enjoys the opportunity to help his neighbors. Using his ability to talk to cats, Nakata helps worried families find their missing pets. But he's self-sufficient and too used to loneliness to mind living on his own. Now an old man, Nakata doesn't have much family left. Living… in Tokyo, on a government subsidy. While Nakata can no longer read or write, he's been able to talk to cats since age 9. However, the effects of the accident weren't all bad. The son of a famous professor, Nakata was a promising young boy until a mysterious incident permanently damaged his mental abilities. The Oedipus myth is often cited as an example of self-fulfilling prophecy, and became associated with Freudian psychology after Freud developed the theory of the “Oedipus complex.” Characters in Kafka on the Shore discuss the Oedipus myth often because Kafka believes himself to be the subject of an Oedipal prophecy.Grew up… with normal intelligence. When he finds out what has happened, Oedipus blinds himself in anguish. Unwittingly, Oedipus fulfills the prophecy. In the myth, Oedipus receives a prophecy from the oracle at Delphi that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Kafka on the Shore also draws heavily on the ancient Greek tragic myth of Oedipus, immortalized in dramatic form by Sophocles in his play, Oedipus Rex. Kafka on the Shore has also drawn much comparison to Murakami’s other long surrealist works, including The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Like Murakami, much of Kafka’s work, such as his short story “The Metamorphosis,” blends unsettling fantastical elements with realism to portray isolated characters dealing with the absurdity of modern life. At the same time, Murakami has also been criticized within Japan for his unconventional style, which draws inspiration from European writers including Kurt Vonnegut and the Czech novelist Franz Kafka.
I-Novels typically use a first-person, confessional style, often to take on extremely dark and personal subject matter. Kafka on the Shore is one of many works by Murakami written in the style of the traditional Japanese “I-Novel,” which emerged in the early twentieth century. Murakami employs a distinct form of magical realism that blends elements of the Japanese literary tradition with foreign influences.
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