He’s been planning his escape for years and is finally ready to leave his father’s care. The Kafka in this novel is a 15 year old boy who has adopted that name and run away from home. This allows us to give in to whatever wackiness shows up throughout an otherwise stoic story. He does not take himself or his works seriously and the reader is better for it.
Kafka On the Shore involves all of these themes and states upfront that it is a metaphysical metaphor. However, Murakami is such a good writer that they somehow don’t all blend together. These specific themes, as well as a few more like baseball, pop up all over his library of works. They’re magical realism hero’s journeys, involve metaphors, involve a young man having a physical relationship with an older woman, play classical music sometimes as a plot point, and possibly involve cats. Fans of Murakami know by now that many of his books are essentially the same book.
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