The Utopian and Dystopian Time in Murakami Haruki's ‘Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World’

This work analyses time in one of Murakami Haruki’s (1949 - ) most well-known novels, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985). There are two distinctly different worlds in the novel – a high-tech, postmodern city with a clear dystopian touch that the writer calls “Hard-Boiled Wonderla...

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