Postmodern literature such as Murakami’s seeks to analyze the state of people inhabiting the Earth in the aftermath of technology and the alienation that resulted from this drastic change. While the widespread reach of technology certainly has its benefits, it has had profound and devastating effects on the human psyche as a whole. The aftermath of these catastrophic events led to a complete change in society and officially began the rapid development of technology which plunged the world into the so-called postmodern, technological age. As stated by Fuminobu Murakami in her book Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture, postmodernism in Haruki Murakami’s context came about because “the optimism characteristic of modernism been shattered by the twentieth century with its two world wars, its death camps, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the threat of nuclear annihilation” (Murakami, 4). One of the most popular and globally recognized writers active today, Japanese author Haruki Murakami is well-known for his novels that confront life in postmodern Japan.
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