Regarding the two book reviews on Sept. 30 about Japanese writer Haruki Murakami: Literary analysis is a game for professional academics. It may be interesting, but no writer consciously sets out to write a work embodying any of the concepts mentioned in articles about him or her.
Murakami, reading either of the above articles, wouldn't recognize himself. Usually in life, things are what they are, and any attempt to extract what isn't there is like looking for faces in the clouds. Problems arise when people believe the faces are real.
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