Labyrinth:

The first time I got to know this word was, when I saw Pan’s Labyrinth (movie) and the first time I experienced it was when I read “Kafka on the shore” by Haruki Murakami.

I finished reading “Kafka on the shore” last night and now it has been exactly 8 hours; needless to say I’m still drowned in it and possibly will be for the rest of my life.

There aren’t many pieces of writing on which I have commented, the last one being Shantaram, but Kafka on the shore surely deserves one. I believe the reason I loved it so much is that it explores two words that have always intrigued me. Ironies and Metaphors, the complete novel is an absolute explanation, experience, dissection, and experiment of it. It allows it to form shapes, feeling, emotions, tears, humor, prophecies etc. In here the definition of these two words are not controlled by the definition given in an oxford dictionary, rather how “Everything is a Metaphor” or ‘The Intestines are the metaphor of a Labyrinth’. Sounds weird, but has metaphorical meaning attached to it.

The whole novel is a kind of free experience intervened in fate! You don’t know whether what’s been done is been done out of free will or fate. But in some crude way both stands correct. Free will and fate unifying together.

Also the reference to music, Greek mythology, Japanese poetry and landscape description, dense forest, jungles combine together to give an experience which is absolutely surreal.

I’m probably going to write more about it in the coming days, as I dissect the meaning further……