- Accessible style, complex themes that make you think
- Great imagination
Can those absurd stories tell us something about real life?
Yes, message:
Letting go that you have to know exactly who you are, that you must and can always have an overview and control over your life, that there must always be and can be stability in your life.
- Characters also first seem to have a stable image of who they are, seem to be in control of everything BUT then something happens and they discover that they actually do not know it all and can’t control it all
- Gap between then and now
- Who did we think we were and how did we think life was and what do we think now
How do they deal with this? Three options:
- Denial: stubbornly trying to stick to the old
- Rebirth: phase to become a new person
- Acceptance: learn to live with split (before-after), learn to accept that stability is not necessary throughout life, that change is okay
= option that finally ends up with characters
Only then we can allow new things, only then can we do things or allow people into our lives that do not strengthen but change the image we have of ourselves.
Source:
Brainwash. Wat schrijver Murakami je leert over het leven – filosoof Ype de Boer. (2018, 15 January). Consulted on 31 May 2019 via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khTxDjroAlY.
The Idealist 