On the topic of unnecessary parts, the clothing descriptions are one of them. The only part where sex-related events seemed like they fit was in Chapter 12, where the teacher confesses her sins.
Though, I have to applaud Kafka for leaving as soon as he could which leads to me wishing that he did the same the first time he had sex with Miss Saeki. Do hand jobs given by another person not count as sex anymore? Plus, before she gave him a hand job, she basically declared that she has a boyfriend and does not go around having sex with just anybody.
Bloody hell, I don’t care if she’s just older than him by a few years, she might be his sister. Kafka did run away from home because he didn’t want to become the person his father prophesied him as.Īlso, the part where Sakura gives Kafka a hand job. Instead, I believe that he allowed his father’s “curse” to sink into his mind, thus it warped his reality. If Kafka actually has an Oedipus complex, I can understand his sexual desire but I don’t believe that he has it.
Then, let’s add the fact that said adult may be the teenager’s own mother. Honestly, it doesn’t matter if Kafka was possessed by the ghosts of Miss Saeki’s past, it doesn’t matter if real 15-year-olds do have sex nowadays (or that they know about it), I don’t like the fact that a teenager who is not of legal age, is fornicating with an adult who is his senior by a few decades. So, yeah, it was disgusting picturing 15-year-old Kafka doing the dirty with 50-something-year-old Miss Saeki. I mean, I’m not the only one who pictures stories as though they’re happening right in front of me, right? Words don’t come to life by just being words, imagination helps. Seriously, this book would’ve fared better without the sex scenes. “Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.” There were a lot of unnecessary parts (scenes and descriptions) in this book and whenever I come upon Kafka having sex with Miss Saeki, I can’t help but remember the quote by Anthony Burgess: Kafka on the Shore is my first Haruki Murakami book and jeez Louise, I’ve never been so confused in my life.
**I wrote this part while I was still at page 380, just to see how much difference there’ll be in opinions once I’ve actually completely reading the book.** The nature of this review is also different from the ones I’ve done before.
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