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L'assassinio del Commendatore. Libro primo: Idee che affiorano

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Una borsa con qualche vestito e le matite per disegnare. Quando la moglie gli dice che lo lascia, il protagonista di questa storia non prende altro: carica tutto in macchina e se ne va di casa. Del resto che altro pu¨° fare? Ha trentasei anni, una donna che l'ha tradito, un lavoro come pittore di ritratti su commissione che porta avanti senza troppa convinzione dopo aver messo da parte ben altre aspirazioni artistiche, e la sensazione generale di essere un fallito. Cos¨ª inizia a vagabondare nell'Hokkaid¨­, tra paesini di pescatori sulla costa e ry¨­kan (le tipiche pensioni a conduzione famigliare giapponesi) sulle montagne. Finch¨¦ un vecchio amico gli offre una sistemazione: potrebbe andare a vivere nella casa del padre, lasciata vuota da quando questi ¨¨ entrato in ospizio in preda alla demenza senile. Il giovane ritrattista accetta, anche perch¨¦ il padre dell'amico ¨¨ Amada Tomohiko, uno dei pittori pi¨² famosi e importanti del Giappone: abitare qualche tempo nella casa che fu sua, per quanto isolata in mezzo ai boschi, ¨¨ una tentazione troppo forte. Quando si trasferisce l¨ª, il nostro protagonista capisce che la sua decisione ha dato il via a una serie di eventi che cambieranno per sempre la sua vita¡­ anzi, la sua realt¨¤. Prima lo intuisce quando scopre un quadro che Amada Tomohiko aveva nascosto nel sottotetto subito dopo averlo dipinto, molti decenni prima: ¨¨ una scena misteriosa e apparentemente indecifrabile, che per¨° trasuda una violenza maligna e indicibile. Poi ne avr¨¤ la certezza quando, una notte, sente il suono flebile eppure inconfondibile di una campanella provenire dal folto del bosco. Facendosi coraggio decide di seguire quel suono che sembra aver attraversato dimensioni sconosciute: dietro un piccolo tempio abbandonato, in mezzo agli alberi, c'¨¨ un tumulo di pietre. C'¨¨ davvero qualcuno - o qualcosa - che agita una campanella l¨ª sotto? L'assassinio del Commendatore (di cui questo Idee che affiorano ¨¨ il primo volume) ¨¨ il grandioso ritorno di Murakami Haruki alle atmosfere fantastiche e sospese di 1Q84: un'indagine sulla forza riparatrice dell'arte e quella distruttrice della violenza; su come sopravvivere ai traumi individuali (ad esempio la fine di un amore) e a quelli collettivi (una guerra, un disastro); sul fare tesoro della propria fragilit¨¤ e diventare ci¨° che si ¨¨. ?Murakami dipinge l'abisso interiore del suo protagonista con movimenti circolari, mettendo in scena un gioco, profondo non meno che arguto, di specchi e doppi, magia e realt¨¤, mistero e indagine psicologica?. ?Rolling Stone? ?Ne L'assassinio del Commendatore il genio di Murakami si muove magistrale tra realt¨¤ e allucinazione?. ?Der Spiegel?

412 pages, Hardcover

First published February 24, 2017

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Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami (´åÉÏ´ºÊ÷) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994¨C95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009¨C10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989¨C2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner.
His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre.

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Very typical Murakami story: I would say the style is something between and . Here's the Murakami bingo after book one (taking some liberties):


(no bingo yet!)

Up until around midpoint, I thought it was going to be a great novel. A painter - who is the typical Murakami protagonist: honest, simple and somehow a magnet to strange people - drives through Japan in a reaction to get as far as possible from his wife who just left him. He ends up in a house on the side of a mountain, where another painter used to live. He discovers a fascinating painting from him and a very mysterious wealthy neighbour, who offers him a large amount of money in exchange for a portrait of him. Thing slowly get crazy (just like The Little People and the goat of 1Q84) and the climax was surprizing. I pretty much got jump scared reading that scene haha!

Past that however, the tension comes down and we're left with no clear direction. The wealthy neighbour (Menshiki) is steering the story and the protagonist is reacting to it. Meanwhile, he's discovering more and more about the painter whose house he is now living in, but other than that, it's unclear what he's actually looking for/trying to do. There are some connections to Nazi Germany, but nothing substantial yet (prob. more in Vol. 2 I guess!) Nothing like Manchuria in Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

Maybe it's just that I'm getting used to his tricks, but the characters seem a bit... recycled. We'll see how volume 2 develops, but so far I hesitated between 3 and 4 stars.
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I?ve read the book ¡°Die Ermordung des Commendator?? written by Haruki Murakami. This novel is the perfect example for a typical plot of Murakami, because there are not only myths, magic and surrealism existing, but also his use of useless numerous sex scenes, which are described as a flat and facile subject-specific book, are obvious. . But nevertheless he is a talented writer and I?m very amazed how he creates such tension where normally none is supposed to be. But on the other hand I do not appreciate that the roman ends in the middle of the story. This first part of the book isn?t nearly finished and to publish half of a book makes it not possible to judge his work. I?m so glad I`ve lend it, buying his story is far too expansive for only half of the story.

Zitat: "Das Bewusstsein, gemalt zu werden, gibt einem das Gef¨¹hl, nach und nach innerlich ausradiert zu werden." Seite 192
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September 28, 2018
In Germany, Murakami's latest tome is published in two parts, the first one entitled: "Killing Commendatore 1: An Idea Appears" - and you know why? Because one of the characters in this book is an idea. Yes. An idea. Welcome to the world of Murakami.

Our main protagonist is a 36-year-old painter though. He (who remains unnamed) has just been left by his wife and retreats into a solitary house in the Japanese mountains to rethink his life. While trying to figure out what to do next, he is confronted with the destinies of two other men who, at the crossroads of their lives, have made decisions that went on to haunt them. For once, there is the world-famous painter who used to live in the lonely house and who hid the mysterious painting "Killing Commendatore" in the attic. Then, there's the protagonist's mysterious neighbour from the other side of the valley who seems to be impossible to paint. What secrets do these men and their paintings hide and reveal?

While the story starts out in a realistic manner, it turns more and more surreal, and there are scenes that read like hallucinations (in fact, the protagonists wonder whether all of this is actually happening). I really enjoyed how Murakami connects all the threads and, by that, the lives of the three men. While the famous painter is not there in person, only through his house and what it contains (he suffers from dementia and lives in a retirement home), the narrator and the neighbour develop a peculiar friendship. Through art and life, more and more layers of all three men are laid bare - and they reflect each other, but these mirror images are created with funhouse mirrors, which keeps the reader guessing about the differences and similarities between their experiences.

Of course, art itself plays a major role: Abstract vs. concrete painting, Western vs. Japanese styles, the question whether art can capture the essense of a person, the role of the artist in society etc. - I love that, it is like a more benign version of feat. .

Is art truer than reality? Reading this book, you are certainly starting to think that this might be the case. Does the painting "Killing Commendatore" contain the famous painter's secret about his past in 1938 Vienna? Will the mysterious neighbour find the courage to look into his dark family secret? And what kind of art will be the future of our protagonist? Maybe the idea will tell us in "Killing Commendatore 2: The Moving Metaphor" (here's my review for Vol. 2).
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February 6, 2022
Typical Murakami novel so far, will see how the second part goes...
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May 10, 2018
Dieses Buch war wieder gro?e Murakami-Liebe. Zwar war es sehr typisch f¨¹r ihn, er ist seinem ¨¹blichen Muster absolut treu geblieben, allerdings war die Umsetzung so sch?n, wenn auch nat¨¹rlich mal wieder verst?rend. Murakamis Romane entf¨¹hren mich irgendwie immer in eine ganz entschleunigte Welt und das liebe ich auch so sehr an ihnen. Wer Murakami mag, kann definitiv dazu greifen, allerdings kann der Autor seine Gegner auch mit diesem Buch nicht herumbekommen, behaupte ich.
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October 7, 2018
Haruki Murakami ha vuelto. Pero... ?acaso ha llegado a irse alguna vez? Los chascarrillos que proliferan cada a?o a cuenta de las quinielas para el Nobel, unido a los incesantes "rescates" a los que se ve sometida su obra, pueden producir la sensaci¨®n de que el escritor japon¨¦s m¨¢s polarizado de todos los tiempos nunca ha desaparecido completamente de nuestras vidas. La realidad, como vemos, no es algo tan sencillo de dilucidar. A lo largo de su extenso e inconfundible cuerpo narrativo, Murakami lleva ocup¨¢ndose de emborronar la frontera entre el mundo de los sentidos y el de las fantas¨ªas on¨ªricas hasta conseguir que ambos se solapen como dos caras de una misma moneda. Novelas como Kafka en la orilla, After Dark, Cr¨®nica del p¨¢jaro que da cuerda al mundo, El fin del mundo y un despiadado pa¨ªs de las maravillas o, muy especialmente, la orwelliana 1Q84 constituyen hitos contempor¨¢neos del cautivador realismo m¨¢gico al que Murakami suele arrojar a sus personajes.

La muerte del comendador es la ¨²ltima incorporaci¨®n a esta larga lista de novelas que desaf¨ªan los patrones establecidos de la literatura convencional. Su an¨®nimo protagonista es un afamado retratista de 37 a?os que se sumerge en una profunda crisis existencial despu¨¦s de que su pareja le pida el divorcio de manera absolutamente inesperada. Sumido en una devastadora espiral de confusi¨®n y tristeza, el narrador se embarca en un err¨¢tico viaje por carretera en direcci¨®n al norte del pa¨ªs, donde finalmente se instala en una casa aislada en mitad de las monta?as que pertenece al padre de un viejo conocido suyo. El descubrimiento en el interior del desv¨¢n de un cuadro titulado La muerte del comendador desencadenar¨¢ una serie de acontecimientos tan perturbadores como inexplicables que llevar¨¢n al protagonista a cuestionarse su propia identidad, caracterizada hasta el momento por la falta de prop¨®sito y una anodina pasividad.

As¨ª, el protagonista de La muerte del comendador, que sigue obedeciendo una vez m¨¢s al marcado perfil de sus predecesores, trata de recomponer los pedazos rotos de su vida impartiendo clases de pintura en un centro asociativo y manteniendo espor¨¢dicos encuentros sexuales con algunas de sus alumnas. No obstante, cuanto m¨¢s trata de evadirse de su pasado, marcado por la p¨¦rdida de inspiraci¨®n art¨ªstica y por la tr¨¢gica muerte de su hermana peque?a, m¨¢s fuerza ejercen sobre ¨¦l las inc¨®gnitas que comienzan a erigirse a su alrededor. La revelaci¨®n del misterio que supone el cuadro, inspirado en la ¨®pera Don Giovanni de Mozart, acciona una serie de engranajes ocultos en la historia que sencillamente resultan imposibles de ignorar. Con estudiada familiaridad, Murakami nos invita a caer por su particular madriguera de conejo hacia una absorbente madeja de hilos narrativos que, en aras del suspense, no parecen alcanzar ninguna conclusi¨®n satisfactoria en este primer volumen de La muerte del comendador.

Por suerte, la fascinante y surrealista escenograf¨ªa murakamiana no se nutre de soluciones coherentes ni explicaciones racionales, sino que se basta a s¨ª misma para despertar el m¨¢s absoluto sentido de la maravilla. Solo Haruki Murakami es capaz de mezclar ingredientes tan dispares y conseguir que el conjunto adquiera una despampanante y enigm¨¢tica solidez. Entre la vigilia y el sue?o, Murakami traza mediante motivos recurrentes, s¨ª, pero igual de eficaces, un descorazonador boceto de la absurda condici¨®n humana contempor¨¢nea, donde la incomprensi¨®n, la soledad y la alienaci¨®n monopolizan cualquier intento de conexi¨®n con nuestros semejantes. A falta del segundo volumen, que nos llegar¨¢ traducido al castellano el pr¨®ximo mes de enero, este primer libro de La muerte del comendador se me antoja como una excepcional oportunidad de regresar al universo literario de Haruki Murakami y disfrutar de una f¨®rmula vigorizada para la que a¨²n nadie ha encontrado sustituto.
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March 8, 2024
3.8 A veces siento que estoy leyendo el borrador de un escritor novel (hay di¨¢logos extra?os y demasiadas descripciones innecesarias), y a veces siento que estoy leyendo una aut¨¦ntica genialidad (lo que este libro se propone indagar es muy complejo: la nada y su relaci¨®n con la creaci¨®n y el arte, y lo logra a su manera). Al final tir¨® m¨¢s a lo segundo, as¨ª que necesito saber qu¨¦ ocurre en la continuaci¨®n de esta historia.
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October 24, 2020
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490 reviews89 followers
May 10, 2020
Este escritor es mi zona de confort; me los voy espaciando porque antes o despu¨¦s acabar¨¦ toda su obra, hasta hoy, claro.
Una delicia sumergirse en la trama de este autor. En este caso, nuestro protagonista, un pintor de arte; despu¨¦s de que su mujer le diga que ya no le apetece seguir viviendo con ¨¦l, se ir¨¢ a vivir a la casa del padre de un antiguo compa?ero de universidad. Y es ah¨ª donde empieza esta maravillosa historia que gira en torno a un cuadro que encuentra en el desv¨¢n de la casa. A partir de ese momento el autor nos sumerge en su mundo, esos mundos peculiares que crea Murakami.
Muy recomendable.
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323 reviews441 followers
March 3, 2021
En La muerte del comendador (primera parte) (2017), Murakami (1949-) sigue siendo Murakami. Su perfecci¨®n formal es absoluta, su pulcritud de prosa, su meticulosidad, sus originales met¨¢foras, sus idas y venidas por la mente de sus personajes, la creaci¨®n de un ambientaci¨®n compleja, pero cre¨ªble, sus referencias art¨ªsticas, tanto asi¨¢ticas como occidentales, su abierta sexualidad, su toque de misterio y, sobre todo, ese peque?o universo fant¨¢stico que tan bien acopla a la realidad. Murakami, en resumen, recrea en esta novela ese maravilloso mundo propio que hace que lo reconozcas como uno de los mejores escritores actuales y que, adem¨¢s, sea comprensible y disfrutable.

Sin embargo, en esta historia de un sencillo y cabal aspirante a pintor en su viaje inici¨¢tico en busca de su identidad, no he tenido la sensaci¨®n de totalidad que otras veces, no he sentido la misma intensidad, aunque no podr¨ªa decir exactamente el porqu¨¦. Es m¨¢s una sensaci¨®n que un razonamiento, as¨ª que me voy a esperar a la segunda parte para intentar llegar a una conclusi¨®n.

¡­porque seguro que voy a leer la segunda parte.
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November 26, 2018



¡±A Morte do Comendador¡± ¨¦ o d¨¦cimo livro que li da obra de Haruki Murakami (n. 1949). Em todos eles ¨C excluindo o ¡±Auto-retrato do Escritor Enquanto Corredor de Fundo¡± -, fico sempre fascinado pela viagem ou pelas viagens que percorro, numa prosa repleta de met¨¢foras e alegorias, dominada pelas subtilezas das personagens, pela sua solid?o e pela sua tristeza.
Neste primeiro volume de ¡±A Morte do Comendador¡±, Haruki Murakami, explora admiravelmente a tem¨¢tica da arte, em conjuga??o com a m¨²sica, neste caso, a ¨®pera; e que nos questiona, essencialmente, sobre os des¨ªgnios da solid?o e do amor.
Haruki Murakami vai introduzindo ideias e in¨²meras refer¨ºncias a outras obras liter¨¢rias; promovendo a d¨²vida e a incerteza narrativa numa conjuga??o entre o natural e o sobrenatural.
¡±A Morte do Comendador¡± ¨¦ um romance de leitura absorvente, inacabado no seu enredo, mas repleto de suspense, dominado pelo simbolismo, pelos segredos e pelas assombra??es, no eterno confronto murakamiano do natural/real e do sobrenatural/irreal.



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September 17, 2021
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October 15, 2018
Para los amantes de Haruki, sabemos que leerlo es entrar en otra dimensi¨®n. No importa lo que suceda al final sino lo que suceda. No importa mucho lo que cuente sino c¨®mo lo haga. Lo importante es no esperar nada para que llegue todo. Y lleg¨®.

La pintura, la soledad, las relaciones complejas, el sexo, lo real se combina con la irreal. Nunca es posible explicar en detalle de qu¨¦ van sus libros porque van de todo y de nada pero maso menos de esto va ¨¦ste.

Es la primera parte de un libro que le sobran las E?s: entusiasma, entretiene, enamora, es enigm¨¢tico, extra?o, esot¨¦rico. No tengo ni idea de c¨®mo va a terminar, de qu¨¦ va a suceder, de c¨®mo lo va a terminar, y por eso, me es imposible ponerle estrellas. Ser¨ªa injusto hacerlo. Aunque esta primera parte me haya parecido de 5 estrellas, s¨®lo es la mitad, y a veces, la segunda mitad de las cosas puede complicar todo.

No me gusta nada esta estrategia comercial de dejar un libro a la mitad (imagino que las razones son comerciales, o no?), siendo de mala memoria, y de las que no se saltan en Netflix la secci¨®n de "esto sucedi¨® en el cap¨ªtulo anterior", c¨®mo voy a recordar en qu¨¦ se qued¨® el libro y de qu¨¦ trata cuando salga la segunda parte, que ni siquiera tiene aun fecha de impresi¨®n?

Eso es lo que no me gusta de este libro. El resto, es pura delicia literaria.
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May 20, 2021
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205 reviews33 followers
November 13, 2018
Omaggio (inatteso) al Grande Gatsby. Anche se ¨¨ un romanzo che Murakami ha amato. Mi ¨¨ piaciuto e l'ho letto d'un fiato. Aspettiamo il prossimo volume per il giudizio finale.
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July 17, 2019
Glavni (neimenovani) pripoveda? novog Murakamijevog romana, napisanog u prvom licu, je slikar. Ponovo je to mu?karac koji ?ivi sam, ima 36 godina, voli da priprema hranu, slu?a klasi?nu muziku i d?ez. Gledaju?i tako, mo?da su u pravu oni koji tvrde da Haruki pi?e uvek istu knjigu. Ipak, ovde je potpuni fokus na umetnosti. Ne samo na likovnoj umetnosti, ve? na kreativnom procesu stvaranja uop?te. A ima i toliko toga za nas, sa ove druge strane, koji umetnost samo konzumiramo. Nakon ?to pro?ita? Murakamijeve opise promatranja i analiziranje slika, do?e ti da izabere? tek nekoliko dela na drugom spratu Narodnog muzeja (mo?da ili ) i da se vra?a? nedelju za nedeljom kako bi posmatrao samo njih.

Naravno, knjigom sam odu?evljen zato ?to Murakami sjajno pi?e. Zanimljivo je ?itati skoro svaki njegov pasus, ?ak i kad prepri?ava jutarnje vesti sa radio iili vremensku prognozu, pripremu "jednostavne ve?ere" ili kako je ko obu?en.

I likovi su odli?ni. Ljudi kakve bi voleo da ima? za sagovornike. To su osobe koje razgovaraju o portretu Van Gogovog po?tara (i koji znaju da je taj po?tar iz Arla), slu?aju Verdijeve opere u Kataniji na Siciliji i znaju ?ta su bile poslednje re?i Imanuela Kanta.

S druge strane, ovo mi je osmi pro?itani Murakami i mogu?e da mi je on omiljeni ?ivi pisac, tako da mo?da u mom mi?ljenju ima i ne?eg subjektivnog. Knjiga je sjajna, tako da dok ne proo?itam drugi deo, ponovo se pitam, kad ?e ta Nobelova nagrada?
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January 15, 2021
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268 reviews477 followers
March 26, 2018
I like this book very much. Wonderful and surreal story.
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