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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 (Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, kare no junrei no toshi)
Published in Japanese in 2013.
Translated into English by Philip Gabriel 2014.
In Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, the protagonist revisits his friends from high school in a quest to find out why he was shunned from the group so long ago.
“…my own contention that dreams, briefly stated, express the dreamer’s deepest desires as well as his or her worst fears, and in this sense they mirror, on the individual level, the nature and function of mythology. This, no doubt, is one reason that dreams, like mythology, frequently contain taboo content, the difference being that whereas in mythology taboos are expressed in a a prohibitive manner, in dreams taboos are enacted freely, without retribution, for the express the desire of the inner self—the baser side of our psyche—which in the dreamscape is permitted to have its way.” —Mathew Carl Strecher, The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
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