Self-Reconciliation and Starting a New Life in the Novel Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Abstract

In Kafka on the Shore, Murakami mentions some ideas about how personal lives are reconstructed by long journey in the novel. Rejecting old life and starting new life occur through the field of signs, narrative and memory. Although, personality reconstruction receipts venue in the internal realm, psychological and the social. The research applies visions from conceptual metaphor, dream, and mirrored stage by (Lacan, 1949;1982). Interface between the reader's knowledge and the language of a literary text through psychological speaking make reader's cognitive development. This study is an effort to show how the reader can innovate his /her point of view and thoughts. By exposing unfamiliar the everyday experience, knowledge and images, Murakami provides new numerous knowledge and ideas that go against the reader's established knowledge and in result modify reader’s point of view to (things) and human in life.