2019, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Part C

Author(s): Samina Khan

Abstract: Haruki Murakami’s short story Kino exemplifies his signature style of blending the mundane and the extraordinary. In the story, the protagonist Kino attempts to find stability by opening a quiet bar after leaving his wife. The narrative integrates unexplained and symbolic events into Kino’s realistic, mundane life, a characteristic technique of magic realism. The intrusion of the supernatural destabilizes the notion of reality, charging the atmosphere with serpentine imagery. This paper reads Kino as a liminal space where reality and the magical coexist without resolution, creating a narrative that resists clear boundaries. In examining how Murakami weaves silence, absence, and uncanny presence into the narrative, this paper analysis situates Kino as a powerful articulation of magical realism’s capacity to render psychological and existential rupture through the language of the surreal.

DOI: 10.33545/27068919.2019.v1.i2c.1683

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