Muh music references

Murakami writes about loneliness/isolation in the overwhelming majority of his works, and does so with an emphasis on introspection (hence heavy use of the first person). If you don't enjoy repeated references to an insulated world, that's fine, but it's neither out of place nor out of line given the topics he explores.

I think we can all agree that Murakami is limited in a way that many other authors are not.

it's out of place with the word good

>reading housewifecore

user...

how thoughtful

it IS so thoughtful i bet mozart would have agreed

Proust literally does this too

I've not read any of his works but I can say I'm heavily influenced by Kafka who doesn't make references of this kind, except maybe to porn in the Trial. It almost always draws me out of fiction when authors do this.

why? it's pretty realistic. not saying it's necessary, but why write as if in a vaccuum of culture?

>introspection
Oh yeah, great introspection, we can see:
"The cake was good" "The beer was cold" "My leg hurts, i don't know why" "My girlfriend left me, i don't know why" "I don't know this" "I don't know about that"
The introspection that could only be brought to you by an old sexual frustrated self inserting gook

>muh thymotic urge
>muh first battle
>muh last man

why does lit fear this man
why so desperate
why cannot think of single criticism other than his references
maybe scared of an unknown

or maybe unknown scared of you

This man, in my country he is nothing.

>muh janaceks sinfonietta

>muh music references
>muh literature references
>muh movies referencias
>muh painting references

why is he so cute, bros?

the japanese gene

Really makes you think

>reads post-modern literature
>is angry about references

Try a little harder

Murakami is unironically the most interesting writer working today. He knows exactly what he's doing, it's all deliberate, he's purposefully writing within this pulp 'pop-culture' framework in order to make observations on and reflect contemporary society. Even his fame was a calculated move, he specifically said that he wrote Norwegian Wood in order to become more popular and move out of the strange solipsistic sci-fi of his earlier works.

Is really Murakami a post-modern faggot?

Yeah, clearly. His work is thoroughly post-modern both chronologically and in it's approach. Have you never read any Pynchon or something where they mix up 'high' and 'low' brow culture and reference things in popular culture.

The entire point of Murakamis work is how the individual is supposed to live in contemporary globalized society, going underneath the framework and structures of contemporary consciousness to see what's underneath (why do you think going underground is such a recurring theme in his books), even the repetition of symbols that people complain about is part of this.

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

Did he secretly write Ready Player One?

The most pathetic surface level complain you could have, and I say that as someone who had never liked Murakami.

All of that is entirely normal in literature, especially contemporary literature. But also common in classics. Im sure the Divine Comedy alone has more references than the whole of Murakami’s output.