There’s something of a pepperoni airplane effect here. Everyone wants to think they’re Proust. I analogize it to the Picasso thing—you need to “learn the rules” before you can usefully take the training wheels off and start “breaking” them. Scare quotes intentional.
I disagree re: Murakami (haven’t read the others). I find him to be communicating extremely clearly. The actual book is full of specific examples of things that we think of as artful and indirect but that are actually bending the full force of themselves into conveying a very bright and specific concept.
There’s something of a pepperoni airplane effect here. Everyone wants to think they’re Proust. I analogize it to the Picasso thing—you need to “learn the rules” before you can usefully take the training wheels off and start “breaking” them. Scare quotes intentional.
I disagree re: Murakami (haven’t read the others). I find him to be communicating extremely clearly. The actual book is full of specific examples of things that we think of as artful and indirect but that are actually bending the full force of themselves into conveying a very bright and specific concept.