Cabins in Japanese Novels
Starting from Kafka on the shore, where Kafka moves to Oshima’s Cabin, once where experiences ultimate isolation and later when he undergoes self-discovery of different nature. Also later in Killing Commendatore when the author moves to Amada’s old cabin. I get lost in this magical realism experienced by characters in such cabins. Maybe it’s the way they narrate it. A huge wooden room in the dense forest having a basement where the character works for an hour on his/her artworks, cooking mediocre meals or at times delicious ones for dinner for oneself and going for grocery shopping down the hill road in the afternoon. To be honest I haven’t read much of japanese books except for Murakami. I have recently started reading ‘The Memory Police’ by Yōko Ogawa which also has a cabin, which lures me to quit everything and open a door to the fantasy world and never come back. As much as the characters, I want such places to exist.