Murakami and Cats!

MURAKAMI & CATS🖤❤

From 'Kafka on the Shore' to 'Sputnik Sweetheart' 🖤❤

Hola Bookish Sweethearts🖤❤

In my previous post, I have briefly reviewed 'Sputnik Sweetheart', it is not a detailed one because every page of the novel demands an explanation when it comes to 'Murakami'. So this post is about the enigmatic relationship between cats and the Murakami's characters.

Murakami and the Cats is one of the topics that always intrigue Murakamians.

In 'Kafka on the Shore' cats played a significant role, the relationship between Nakata and cats made me ecstatic. Nakata, a fragile old man who can only understand the language of cats, he can't decipher the language of human beings.

Nakata susses cats' mercurial moods, whereas human emotions, language and temperament are strange for his mind. Nakata is portrayed as 'Intellectually disabled person' but cats can commiserate with his thoughts.

On the other hand, Murakami has portrayed cats in a mysterious veil in 'Sputnik Sweetheart'.

Cats were given a 'Creophagous' image. It is quite creepy, but if you look deep into the story line, the 'Dead emotions', the emotions which are dormant, dead, buried were grasped by the cats.

The cats are delineated in a mindblowing hidden meaning in both the novels. 

Cats were described as the beings which can understand the scattered emotions of humans, the emotions which are alien to the normal mind are decipherable for cats.