surrealism: 20th-c movement in art and literature aiming to explore and express the subconscious and to move beyond the accepted conventions of reality by representing the irrational imagery of dreams using such techniques as automatism, the irrational juxtasposition of images and the creation of mysterious signals
that about sums it up.
"kafka on the shore" has two protagonists whose stories are told in alternating chapters. there is kafka tamura, a 15-year-old boy who runs away from home to escape from his own oedipal fate; and there is nakata, an old man, who had an event in his childhood that turned him into a simpleton, unable to read or write.
these two characters are brought together in a truly bizarre tale that has leeches and fish falling from the sky, johnnie walker and colonel sanders in the flesh and a philosophy quoting prostitute.
an interesting book, i've definitely not read anything quite like it, but i'm not going to rush to read other novels by murakami.
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