Models of arguments in Murakami's narrative
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https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.47.69Keywords:
contemporary novel, Haruki Murakami, narrative, Japanese literatureAbstract
The purpose of the work is to investigate Haruki Murakami's narrative in order to recognize, among its various arguments, models of thematic affinity and structural organization. The applied methodology is based on the postulates of the structuralist literary criticism (Todorov, Greimas) and it also incorporates the approach of relevant specialists (Seats, Strecher, Rubio) on the author. When considering a series of works, appreciable structural confluences are observed between them (novels and stories). The conclusions drawn allow us to affirm that the aforementioned works are built from common schemes, that is, two thematic and plot models are delimited.
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