‘DANCE DANCE DANCE’, A METAPHOR FOR SELF-DISCOVERY
‘DANCE DANCE DANCE’, A METAPHOR FOR SELF-DISCOVERY

Summary/Abstract: Dance Dance Dance’ is a page turner where characters are constantly negotiating their identities between a real dimension and a fantasy world. Living primarily concerns one’s arduous quest for a genuine soul-commitment. ‘Do not make the same mistake twice!’ sounds promising, yet it turns out to be more like a challenge rather than a fact for most of Murakami’s shipwrecked-off-life’s-shore characters. In Haruki Murakami’s case, the boundaries between reality and unreality do not mistakenly melt away; on the contrary, they are shaped as a road running zigzags among human beings’ errors, recurrent faults, inaccuracies, and all sorts of inherent blunders.

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