Entre commun et hors du commun dans « Hitsuji o megurubōken » de Haruki Murakami
Between common and out of common in Haruki Murakami’s "Hitsuji o megurubōken"

Summary/Abstract: Best-seller in Japan and internationally, Haruki Murakami’s novel « Hitsuji o meguru bōken », a magical realistic one, is built around a seemingly ordinary narrative plot: a young advertising agent inserts a picture in a newsletter advertising pages from Tokyo. From that moment on, everything becomes complicated, his life taking an unexpected turn. The intrigue of the novel, the characters and other various details are all put in the service of revealing mysteries. Having a personal or cultural nature, these details are unusual, draw attention, increase sales, constitute a threat or give meaning to life, they consequently have multiple meanings. They are described with great finesse, not coincidentally, from our point of view, by an author belonging to the Japanese culture. Two issues constitute the essence of the analysis below, namely: a. common aspects; b. aspects of uniqueness, of singularity, of the unusual. Their goal is to underline the magical realistic character of the novel.

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