“In dreams begins responsibility“

We start with Mr Wind-up bird, although we could go further back, to the Norwegian wood. After the cat disappears, never a good omen, Toru seeks himself at the bottom of a dry well. Later, his alter ego will search for the Sputnik Sweetheart, on a greek island that can only remind us of the Magus. Do we have to believe in the coexistence of dreams with what is commonly described as “reality”? Lovecraft used to meet other dreamers in his dreams. They knew each other, and from one dream to another, they met and resumed their voyage.

Kafka gives us a clue, as he searches for who he is in the mysterious library in Shikoku. Bu it is in the forest’s log cabin, in Tochi, that he feels free, for a few days, alone, surrounded by trees. His story threads irresistibly with Nakata’s, the cats’ angel protector, he who murders the infamous Johny Walker. Oshima, the androgyne, is the successor to Cinnamon, whose beauty and elegance she inherits.

Perhaps the key is in the guest room, the oil painting of Kafka, on the shore?