12 Problems Only Haruki Murakami Fans Will Understand
5. Wanting To Climb Down A Well
Murakami once said My lifetime dream is to be sitting at the bottom of a well. To many people this probably sounds like insanity, but not to Murakami fans they know exactly where he's coming from.
In Murakami's novels, wells and other subterranean spaces represent many things, from descending into one's own mind to the chance to emerge reborn and renewed. Take the underground caves found in Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World, for example, or the deep well at the end of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle which threatens to swallow Toru Okada whole. Its my lifetime dream to be sitting at the bottom of a well. Its a dream come true. I thought: its fun to write a novel, you can be anything! So I thought: I can sit at the bottom of a well, isolated Wonderful! Rest assured, Murakami - fans know what you mean.