It may remind readers of Severance or Inception, but Murakami got there first.
Most artists have a handful of ideas or themes they keep returning to—reworking, reconsidering, or just obsessing over a set of key preoccupations. But it’s a rare novelist who writes a story early on, then rewrites the same story in midcareer, and finally again in his late maturity.
The premise he has returned to is this: An unnamed man exists both in the recognizably real world and in a walled town where nothing ever changes. The inhabitants of the town wear simple clothes and live “plain but perfectly adequate lives.” As a resident of the walled town, the narrator works at a library that archives not books but spherical objects containing “old dreams” that he is tasked with reading. Assisting him is a young woman, the librarian, with whom he falls in love.
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