He explains the strangest thing as if it were the most natural thing because he is Kafka's son and knows well that extravagance can be but a quality of normality. His core work is a dance of Eros and Thanatos, which relieves the existential emptiness with jazz music. And so his symbols and his dream language are born, wrapped by the seminal idea that all fiction can be real if one accepts the syllogism that states that if fiction is imagination and imagination is real, fiction is real. A solo traveler, he chooses the routes of the mind because they are unfathomable and because he is not able to avoid the temptation to scrutinize them. Haruki Murakami, awarded this Wednesday with the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, has been able to create his own style based on a world of his own, and his unusual voice is recognized without the slightest effort in the deafening noise of contemporary narrative.
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