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Conceptualising Literary Space in Haruki Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Chakraborty Paban Junior Research Fellow, Department of English, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Email id: pawanfromkolkata@gmail.com Abstract The concept of literary space has been an important discussion in the history of narrative. The answer to how this space has to be visualised has been answered in different ways. My aim in this paper is to show how narrative building is realised through the practice of spatiality and becomes instrumental to the visualisation of a new world, a refuge. From Lefebvre, Deleuze to Soja all have their own versions of spatiality but they all agree to this spatial turn in postmodern narrative. Here, history is no longer the monolithic cult of world-building but a plurality of notions. Literature as a mode of representation has been taken as an imaginative manifesto for the real places. In postmodern turn, this has given way to an indifference between space and place. I shall analyse how Murakami builds up this multifarious hybrid to place fiction as a spatial/geographical construct. Top Keywords Space, Representation, Place, Geocriticism, Murakami, Japan, Barthes. Top | |
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