Your Insight Into Kafka on the Shore - Part 2
Posted by David New on 11/05/2008“Kafka’s return ‘home’ is a return to self. Through an act of forgiveness he reconciles the memory of the mother who loved him with the memory of the mother who abandoned him, and ultimately returns to ‘home’ which in this case is self.”
“That poor boy was abandoned by his mother and as a result he had to go on this incredible mind trip to recreate her so he could face her and forgive her.”
“I loved the line, ‘In dreams begin responsibility.’ That is why it is important to exercise our imagination.”
“It reminded me of The Wizard of Oz – the psychological journey from adolescence to adulthood and the transference of the idea of home from a place to an internal state.”
“It’s all about integration of self - the integration of impulse, memory, emotion, psychology, sexuality. It’s a helluva balancing act.”
“The entrance stone is the portal to the other world, Oshima says, that lives in parallel to our own. It is given the form of a stone, but it could be anything.”
“We should all go home happy. A fifteen year old murders his father, sleeps with his mother, and gets on with his life. It’s the typical story, right?”