The threads of the past serve as an invisible link between a husband and wife who have become emotionally estranged following a tragedy in “Drive My Car.” They connect with each other, but only through stories that the wife narrates to her husband while they make love. Surrealism and magical realism are important in life because they are our escape from harsh reality, the melancholic past, and sometimes from ourselves. And when he finds the protagonist entangled in all these complexities, he slowly introduces the nuances of surrealism. With them, he dives into the depths of consciousness and dives into their buried memories, which are indeed more dense than outer space itself. In my perception, Murakami is one of those artists who capture the existential crisis of a person, be it a lover, an actor, a husband, or a wife.
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