Information of the Book
Killing Commendatore is the 14th long novel by Haruki Murakami.
Outline and Style
A story of 36 years old male portrait specialized painter. The style is a reminiscence by the man.
Book 1 consists of 32 chapters. The chapters are attached titles of a vague passage.
Characters
Painter (‘I’)
: A portrait specialized painter. Graduated from an art collage.
Yuzu
: Former painter’s wife. Younger than him 3 years. Have a architecture licence and worked at a small architecture office. A classmate of my former girlfriend. The painter fell in love with her at first sight, because she resembles his younger sister. She married with him two times. The interval (live separately to him) was 9 months, and he lived in the valley. When he was 36 years old,
Wataru Menshiki (7 -)
: A successful IT business entrepreneur. 54 years old well-dressed good-build mysterious man with a curled long white hair.
Masahiko Amada
: Collage class mate with him. When he graduated from the Art Collage, gave up job of painting, and got a employment at an advertising agency.
Tomohiko Amada
: A 92 years old famous painter of Japanese painting. Graduated from Tokyo School of Art (present Tokyo Art University), he studied abroad oil painting at Wien from 1936 to 1938. He converted to Japanese painting during the Pacific War because of .
A later twenties married woman slept with the painter (1)
: A married later twenties women with a characteristic face, suffered domestic violence by her history private high-school teacher husband.
A 41 years old married woman slept with the painter
: The another was a wealthy 41 years old woman with chic outfits and a firm body, and her husband run a company.
Manager of a art agent (, 3)
Komichi (3, 10, 23)
: Younger sister of the painter. She suddenly dead at 12 years old by the heart disease when he was 15 years old.
‘Long face’ (5)
Ex-lover of Menshiki (13)
: Mr. Menshiki associated with her till 13 years ago. She married with other man without noticing. Mr. Menshiki thinks she may give birth his child seven months after the marriage. But she died 7 years ago.
Man of White Subaru Forester (19)
: A middle aged gray-haired man run after a girl.
A late twenties girl (19, 27)
: A late twenties girl with a uncharacteristic face and usual clothes. The painter came across her at a family restaurant in Miyagi. She run away from the man of white Subaru Forester.
Commendatore (21 -)
: Idea. A 60 cm height small man wears the clothes of the Asuka era from the painting work ’Killing Commendatore’ by Tomohiko Amada. He isn’t a ghost, is a ‘idea’ exists in some restrictions and forms himself between few hours in a day, and speaks by a strange ancient way of speaking. He had became a pure idea and he has no liner memory.
Young bartender (23, 24)
Chef (24)
Marie Akikawa (25, 28, 30)
A 13 years old, small, quiet and mysterious girl. A student of the art course run by the painter near the Odawara station, and Mr. Menshiki thought that she is a danger between him and his ex-lover.
Shoko Akikawa (30)
A early forties grace woman, an aunt of Marie Akikawa. She accompanied Marie when the painter drew the portrait of Marie. During the painter drew the portrait, she read a covered thick paperback made a secret the title in the living room of the painter’s house.
Man without face (prologue)
: A tall man without face, and wears a black cap and a dark long coat.
Locations
Upper part of the mountain near the entrance of a narrow valley
: The place where the painter stayed. The former atelier of Tomohiko Amada in the suburban Odawara city. The painter actually borrow from Masahiko Amada of the reason of worry about theft and fire.
Culture shool in the front of Odawara station
: The painter was introduced there by Masahiko Amada. He taught dessin and water colour on Wednesday and Friday.
Mr Menshiki’s house
: A big elegant white house.
A Small Shrine
Hole Under the Small Shrine
Key Elements
penguin amulet (prologue)
‘Killing Commendatore’
: A painting work by Tomohiko Amada. It was painted a violent scene of the Asuka era. A young man thrusts the breast of a old man by a heavy sword. A young women a male servant see this duel. And the strange man sees the scene from a hole of the left lower edge part of the painting.
Cheap second-handed car
: Power blued Toyota Corolla Wagon
portrait
Jungle Network (8)
Jungle Network means a word-of-mouth network among married women and housewives.
Akinari Ueda
opera
Bell like an Ancient Instrument (15 -)
: buddhist instrument
The portrait of Mr. Menshiki (, 18, 19)
idea (21)
The portrait of white Subaru Forester (20, 22, )
binoculars (24,)
Summaries and Memoirs
Prologue
A man without face visited a room of a painter and ask him to draw his face. But The painter can’t draw his ‘face’, because there’s mere nothingness. And the man has no time and left the room.
1. If the Surface is Misty
From May of the year to the begging of the next year, A painter lived an upper part of the mountain near the entrance of a narrow valley. From the house it can see the nasty part of the see and the imaginative mountain scene.
At the time, The painter and his wife divorced temporarily during nine months, and they can’t well understand why they devorced. And he can’t comprehend the time was short or long, the mean of the chaotic time and amazing events of the time.
An art collage classmate Masahiko Amada lent the painter the house of former his father’s atelier, the reason of ‘The house would fall into ruin, and there’s anxiety of theft and fire’. His father is the famous painter of Japanese painting and had entered a high-grade nursing home in Izu. powder bleu Toyota Corolla Wagon
The time of divorce, the painter had an affair with two women. Both were the students of a painting class ran by him.
When the painter was a art collage student, he made big abstract paintings. But, to earn his daily bread, he began to do the jobs of portrait painting. Somehow, his portrait paintings had got evaluations by the clients. To make portraits as a labour is easier than other labour works and abstract painting.
When he paint a portrait, he meets and interview with a client, and received snapshots of the client. he paints a portrait by the three-dimensional visual memory of a client not a client itself.
He started an independent business as a portrait-specialized-painter. Sometimes he feels ‘I’m a high-grade prostitute in painting’. But the time he were 36 years old and should wash his hands of the business.
2. Eveyone May Go to the Moon
A evening of middle of march before one month to the 6th wedding anniversary, the painter’s wife told him that she wanna divorce to him immediately by a dream she had. So he went away the home within the day.
In a hurry, he heaped up necessities and artist’s materials to his red Peugeot 205. Then his wife told me that ‘Can I remain your friend?’. red Peugeot 205
He wandered about aimlessly Tokyo by the car. Sheryl Crow’s first album
He headed for the north by highways and reached the side of the Japanese Sea. Octet by Mendelssohn; I Musici Chamber Orchstra; MJQ (Modern Jazz Quartet); Pyramid; Milt Jackson
He reached Hokkaido, then for three weeks he wandered about Hokkaido. In the later half of April he headed to Japanese mainland along the side of the Pacific.
- In some parts of this novel, Murakami uses ‘ore’ as a subject pronoun of the narrator. ‘Ore’ is one of Japanese subject pronoun, adult men use. Usually Murakami uses ‘boku’ (male children and young men’s subject pronoun) or ‘watashi’ (subject pronoun of women and adult men) as a subject pronoun by the narrator.
The painter met with his wife when ‘I’ was few before 30 years old. After 6 months to the first meeting, he married with her. She worked at a architecture office and he worked at home to paint portraits.
He couldn’t think of the reason why Yuzu wanted to divorce. They spent a good married life he thought.
He felt fatigue by wandering, so he stayed a little old spa treatment spot in the mountain at border of Miyagi prefecture and Iwate prefecture. To the way to Tokyo, his red little Peugeot 205 was broken. So he returned Tokyo by train. At Tokyo, He called for Masahiko Amada to explained his circumstances, then Masahiko told him that ‘There’s a good house just for you’.
3. It’s Only a Physical Reflection
After the wandering, the painter phoned Yuzu from the house in Odawara, because he want to take back his belongings left in Yuzu’s room.
He went to the mansion at Hiroo and took back his belongings.
He called the agent of art and told that ‘I will never paint a portrait again.’. The manager said ‘I think you have a special ability to make portrait’. Rolling Stones;
Tomohiko Amada’s atelier is a Western style cottage (cabin) unsuspectedly. In the house there were huge Tannoy speakers, Marantz vacuum tube amp and fine record collection of opera. Masahiko Amada said his father is a fan of opera, and he went to opera theatres frequently when he studied abroad at Vienna, and he studied modern Western fine art. Volvo; Tannoy; Maranz
The painter taught dessin and water colour at a culture school in the front of Odawara station on Wednesday and Friday.
4. To See from a Distance, Almost All Things Look Beautiful
The (former) studio of Tomohiko Amada motivated the painter, but he had no idea of which he wants to draw.
Puccini; Turandot; La Bohème;
Two days of the weeks he and a 41 years old married women had affairs at the house.
They purely enjoyed the sexual connection in body.
He read Tomohiko Amada’s books and listened Amada’s records remained in the house, and shared with Amada the mind. Beethoven; Schubert
He was interested in the personality and the works of Tomohiko Amada. He researched the books about him in the Odawara City Library.
Tomohiko Amada drew sceneries of the ancient Japan especially the Asuka era. He had studied abroad western oil painting at Wien. But he suddenly backed to Japan in 1938. After the Second World War, he vividly debuted again as a Japanese art artist. Shotoku Taishi; Wien; the Second World War; Hitler; Anschluss; attack on Pearl Harbour;
The painter think he should study by the life and works of Tomohiko Amada in some means.
There was a big gorgeous white modern house on the opposing side of valley. And the owner may spend a elegant liberty life.
At that time, he didn’t think the man and the painting Killing Commendatore would affect his life.
5. Breathlessly, also Hands and Feet are Cold
In the house (atelier) of Tomohiko Amada, there’s no painting by himself and other painters. There’s a trace of Tomohiko Amada in the air. Matis; Blacque; Wien
One day, the painter accidentally found a painting work Killing Commendatore by Tomohiko Amada when he entered the attic to find a horned owl. horned owl; Killing Commendatore
He unpacked the wrapping of Killing Commendatore without agreements of Tomohiko and Masahiko Amada. The picture is Japanese art was drew a violent scene of the Asuka era. The painter hit on the painting is connected with Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni. Asuka era
For few weeks, he spent only seeing Killing Commendatore with listening to a record of Don Giovanni.
Quotation from Don Giovanni.
6. Until Now, He is a Client without Face
The painter got a mysterious request of paint a portrait by the art agent. The client offered a extraordinary reward and he requested to paint the portrait by face to face. The client lived near the house, and he said he would visit to paint the portrait. Nike; Banana Republic; Starbucks
7. Good or Bad, The Name Easy to Memorize
It’s necessity to draw vivid portrait is the ability to grasp a core in client’s face. Mr. Wataru Menshiki visited the atelier by his silver Jaguar sport coupe. Mr. Menshiki told his house is very near the atelier. He said something like a genuine personality exist on the portraits painted by the painter. Mr. Menshiki asked him to draw freely without a restriction as portrait and said Mr. Menshiki was glad to accept adopting a unusual manner. silver Jaguar sport coupe; Don Giovanni; Prague
The painter realized Mr. Menshiki may have motive for other purpose. Edger Allan Poe
8. Unusual Blessing
The painter searched the word ‘Menshiki’ by Google at an Internet Café in the front of Odawara station, but he couldn’t find the information about him. He called Masahiko Amada to ask about Mr. Menshiki. Google; Facebook
41 years old married women called the painter. He asked her about Mr. Menshiki.
Masahiko called again and he told the painter that he couldn’t find the information about Mr Menshiki and Menshiki may get rid of information about himself. Rendrandt; Doraqroi; Andy Wahhohl; ’Blessing in disguise.’
- For the first time, the appearance of the internet in Murakami’s novel.
The painter had a love affair with the married woman. He talked with her about Mr Menshiki and she said she would search by the Jungle Network.
- Jungle Network means a word-of-mouth network among married women and housewives.
After the affair, the painter saw the pure clean house of Mr Menshiki. And he thought ‘the whiteness is a kind of colour’.
9. Exchanging Their Own Pieces
Mr Menshiki went to the painter’s house. They talked about to paint a portrait. The painter told ‘I should critically find the essence of a model’. Mr Menshiki said ‘You may reproduce (represent) a form from a visual memory’, ‘Your works are different to portrait as a pure commercial article’ and ‘I want to paint portrait as an exchange (interchange)’. Starbucks
- An important part of this novel. This discussion is a notion, a theory or a criticism to create art works, to write novel and to Haruki Murakami himself.
They went to the studio. The painter made Mr Menshiki sit a stool. Georg Solti; Richard Strauss; Ein Heldenleben; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Wagner; Karajan; Erich Kleiber
The painter drew 5 pieces of dessins but he could’t draw the Mr. Menshiki’s face well because he couldn’t grasp the essential image of Mr. Menshiki. Then Mr. Menshiki talked about bits of himself, and they talked about the history of Japanese art. And the talk reached a philosophical discussion about an unconscious common sense, a difficulty of putting into words a self-evidence and a definition of the self in the front of other(s). Meiji Restration; Tenshin Okakura; Fenollosa
The painter reflected about Mr. Menshiki. He can’t draw Mr. Menshiki finely because he can’t grasp the core (heart) of a being as Menshiki.
10. We Push Away Green Grass Highly Grow Thick…
Younger sister of the painter suddenly dead at 12 years old by the heart disease when he was 15 years old. He drew her many times to stock the ‘current memory’ of her.
He suffered the extreme claustrophobia by recalling the sight of his sister was put into a small coffin, rocked and sent to the cerematory.
41 years old married woman told the information about Mr. Menshiki from the ‘Jungle Network’. Jaguar; Range Rover; Mini Cooper; BMW; Bluebeard’s Castle
After the death of painter’s sister, the relation of his family was broken, and he wanted to concentrate on painting pictures so he went to the art collage.
11. Moon Light Brightened All Things There Were
At 1:45 of a Sunday midnight, the painter woke up, then he realized a tone of a bell rung from a small shrine on a mountain behind. He went the small shrine and confirmed that the bell rung from inside the shrine. By a omnicent feeling, he got back to the house. The tone stopped at 2:31 AM.
On evening of the day, the painter went the small shrine again. The small serine looked shabby in the sunlight. The painter try to draw the portrait of Menshiku, but he can’t.
In the midnight of the next day, the painter heard the tone of bell again.
12. Like That Nameless Postman
Mr. Menshiki visited again painter’s studio. Still the painter couldn’t grasp and draw the portrait of Mr. Menshiki. Richard Strauss; Ein Heldenleben; van Gogh
- In this chapter, the painter states the notion about painting portrait. Almost all ’auto pilot’ task.
The painter said ‘Anyhow I can’t draw well a ’portrait’ of conventional form as a work’. But Mr. Menshiki said he has a sound curiousity and he want to only the painter represent the shape as it is which his eyes grasp. that Postman of Arles
After the painting, the painter talked to Mr. Menshiki about the occurrences of ringing bell from the small shrine. Then Mr. Menshiki said he want to visit at this night.
Wiener Konzerthaus streicherquartett; Schubert; Tchaikovsky; Rachmaninov; Sibelius; Vivaldi; Debussy; Ravel; Verdy; Puccini; German Opera; Bach; Brahms; Schumann; Beethoven; Mozart
13. At Present, It is Just a Hypothesis Only
The painter and Mr. Menshiki talked about having a child. Then Mr. Menshiki told about ex-lover he associated with 13 years ago, and he inferred she may gave birth his child, but the ex-lover died 7 years ago. Ginza; Akasaka
After her death, Mr. Menshiki got her letter from her lawyer. Judged by the content of her letter, he supposed her child may be his child.
He investigated the child by his lawyer.
14. However, That’s the Strange Incident I Meet First
The painter and Mr. Menshiki went to the small shrine and they found someone rang a bell or something in the small shrine.
Then they returned the house of the painter. They drunk Scotch whiskey and Mr. Menshiki told this incident resembles a thriller in Spring Rain Stories by Akinari Ueda. Scotch whisky; White Label; Akinari Ueda; Spring Rain Stories; Bond of Second Generation
The painter called Masahiko Amada to got approval by him to dig the small shrine.
The painter read Bond of Second Generation by Arinari Ueda.
Mr. Menshiki called the painter and he said he ordered gardeners to dig up the small shrine.
15. It’s Only a Beginning
At 10 AM of a Wednesday morning, the work began.
During the work, the painter and Mr. Menshiki talked about Sokushinbutsu and Nirvana.
Mozart; Sonata for Piano and Violin; Tannoy; Autograph; George Szell; Rafael Druian; Thelonious Monk; Monk’s Music; Coleman Hawkins; John Coltrane;
Under the small shrine, there’s a hole, inside the hole there’s a room made by stones, and the bottle of the hole there’s a bell. Mr. Menshiki went in the room and handed the bell to the painter. Then Mr. Menshiki suggested this room should be investigated by the gardener.
16. A Relatively Better Day
That night the painter can’t fall asleep by the care about the bell.
The next afternoon, the painter went on with the portrait of Mr. Menshiki and he painted it only for himself. After the work, he felt a good sensation of beginning in the air of autumn evening.
At 21:00 of the day, Mr. Menshiki called the painter and they talked about the worth of the event of the day. Menshiki said they had obtained something can’t be digitized by the digging.
Married woman called the painter and they did a phone sex. Tonny Bennett; Nietzsche; Shopenhauer
17. Why Do I Missed the Very Important Thing
The painter remembered Yuzu said ‘Can we remain friends as they are? If you can?’. significance of topos; local rule
The painter gave careful consideration to and struggle with the portrait of Mr. Menshiki. Then the portrait became a work is quite different from a usual portrait. common nothingness (commonplace of absence); Annie Laurie
At 11 AM, Mr. Menshiki came to the house of the painter. V8 engin
18. Curiosity Kills Not Only Cats
The painter and Mr. Menshiki went to the small shrine. Mr. Menshiki said he want to enter and shut himself up in the hall they had dug up. Fumimaro Konoe; Hakone; Atami; curiousity; risk
Mr. Menshiki stayed in the hall covered by a lid (cover) an hour.
Sherlock Holms; Dr. Watson; shadow
The painter told Mr. Menshiki that his portrait was completed in ’a meaning’, but it’s not a portrait, it’s a rather ’a work is modeled on you’. And he said ‘I drew the thing I shouldn’t drew and pull out in you’. Then the painter showed the ‘portrait’ of Menshiki, and Menshiki said ’It’s excellent.’ and ‘You discovered this picture, you found out an image buried in your inner self’. Then Menshiki said he take in it and want to invite the painter to his house dinner. Renbrandt; ego; border between the reality and inreality
19. Do You See Anything Behind Me?
41 years old married woman visited the house of the painter, they talked about the ‘portrait’ and his invitation.
- The details about the ‘portrait’ of Menshiki wasn’t described. Author described only it is an unusual ‘portrait’ but a fantastic work made by the connection the painter with Mr. Menshiki.
When the painter strolled Tohoku area, he came across a late twenties girl at a family restaurant in a baytown in Miyagi. A middle aged gray-haired man (the man of white Subaru Forester) run after the girl, so the painter and the girl got out the restaurant and run away from him. Ohgai Mori; The Abe Clan; white Subaru Forester; Fool on the Hill; John Lennon; Paul McCartney; Shinagawa
They checked in at a love hotel.
They do hard sex then slept. When he waked up, she had disappeared. After a checkout he went to the family restaurant to eat breakfast. The man of white Subaru Forester was there, and he glared at the painter and his face told the painter like that ‘I exactly know where you were and what you did’. YONEX
At the house of the painter, 41 years old married woman told him that six or seven years ago, Mr. Menshiki was taken into custody in Tokyo Detention House for a insider trading or a money laundering. Tokyo Detention House; Bluebeard’s Castle
20. A Moment Being and Anti-Being Fuse
Next morning, the painter went to the studio and faced a white canvas to foresee a thing to draw. (canvas zen). He draw a vertical line on the canvas, then started to draw the man of white Subaru Forester by a charcoal. canvas zen; a vertical line
- Vertical line or border is an important thing of metaphor to divide up between reality and alter world.
He went to the hall of the small shrine and reflected why and how Mr. Menshiki had stayed in the hall.
Masahiko Amada visited the house and the painter told about the hall and the bell. Then the painter said ‘I have a fleeing I want to draw picture, and I’m getting to grasp a new form of art based on portrait’.
Amada told the painter that he and Yuzu had met. She asked his advice on her matters.
This night the painter woke up at 1:35 AM, and he heard the bell was ringing.
21. It’s Small, But the Blood Is Comming if You Cut
The painter was sure that someone ring the bell in the house or the studio. He went the studio but no one ring the bell, and the bell was a shelf he had placed. At that moment, he found a small man of 60 cm height wears the clothes of Japanese ancient era. He realized that the small man is the commendatore in the painting work Killing Commendatore by Tomohiko Amada. Mickey Mouse; Pocahontas; Walt Disney
At around 2:15, Commendatore became silent and vanished. The painter reflected that this world is neither reality nor dream.
22. The Invitation is Still Remain
The next, the painter saw the Japanese art work ‘Commendatore’ (Commendatore still existed in the tableau, the idea ‘Commendatore’ didn’t come out from the tableau), and consider the occurrence of last night and an excellent ability of Tomohiko Amada. van Gogh
Next morning, the painter drew the portrait of the man of white Subaru Forester. When he drew the portrait, the Commendatore emerged spoke to him and he can read the mind of the painter. awakening; Edward G Robinson; Theronias Monk; Don Giovanni; spiritual being
By this night, the Commendatore stopped ring the bell. Mozart; Don Giovanni
23. Everyone Really Exist in This World
At 13 years old, the painter and his younger sister Komichi (10 years old) traveled Yamanashi prefecture and went to the air hole of Mount. Fuji. In the hole, only Komichi entered a small wind hole and stayed the depth of there for a while. The painter greatly shocked. But she got out of the hole calmly and she said ’there’s a special place I can only go in, it’s a room for me’. Yamanashi; Mount Fuji; Louis Carol; Alice in Wonderland
Two years later, Komichi died. The painter felt Komichi had already died in the small wind hole. He thought she might live only the two years of postponement.
A Nissan Infinity limousin by Mr. Menshiki picked up the painter. Mr. Menshiki showed the painter his gorgeous house. A young bartender hired by Menshiki made balalaika for them. They talked about art, playing piano and human abilities. Nissan Infinity; komainu; Meißen; Steinway; Maurizio Pollini; balalaika; Baccarat; Koimari; abstract portrait; cerebral cortex; cosmos; micro cosmos; van Gogh; Mozart; Proust; Persian carpet
Mr. Menshiki showed the painter his writing room. He set the portrait on the room, and it went well with the setting. Schubert; Strings Quartet
Mr. Menshiki explained the lower two floors are used as a storehouse, a laundry room and a gym.
24. I Only Collect Pure Direct Informations
Mr. Menshiki and the painter ate dinner cooked by a chef hired by Menshiki. Robin Hood; Italia; Lucca; champagne; Sicilia; Catania; Verdi; Ernani; Bordeaux wein; souffre; espresso
After the dinner, Menshiki talked about the staying in the hole of the small shrine. He said ‘I want to touch the death’. They got out the terrace of the house, and Menshiki showed his military binoculars and a house on the mountain. And he said a girl may be his daughter lives in the house. border; Icarus; binoculars; Stainway; unlimited solitude
25. I Suppose The Truth Bring a Man Deep Solitude
Mr. Menshiki asked the painter to paint the portrait of the girl named Marie Akikawa and he wanted to see the girl when she would being painted. Menshiki want to only to see her growth in a roundabout way. Then Mr. Menshiki talked about the history of Tomohiko Amada studied abroad in Berlin. Stainway; Austria; the World War 2; Vienna; Berlin; Anchuluss; Germany; Hitler; the Anti-Comintern Pact; Gestapo; Nazi; Asuka era; Bremen
- Another episode ‘Mr. Menshiki and Marie Akikawa’ begun, but there’s no necessity to .
Hakenkreuz
26. I Don’t Believe Such a Excellent Composition Exists in the World
Two days ago, the agent called the painter and told that Mr. Menshiki payed the charge of the portrait including an extra bonus and the portrait is wonderful and beyond the category of portrait.
The painter watched carefully the Killing Commedatore by Tomohiko Amada in the studio. Donna Anna; Leporello; Nazi; SS; allegory
The painter remembered and reflected that his younger sister Komichi and his visiting Yuzu’s elite family. unconsciousness; Setagaya Ward; Tokyo University
happiness; turning; affinity; solidality; single malt on the rock; Schubert; Strings Quartet; Rosamunde
27. I Remember the Shape and Form Vividly, However…
The painter told 41 years old women that the dinner at Mr. Menshiki’s house. quality; difficulty; four of British cars; Jaguar E type; Toyota Corolla wagon; Audrey Hepburn; Peter O’Toole
The portrait of the man of white Subaru Forester completed remaining uncompleted. It indicated a ominous sign.
The painter remembered the ‘affair’ with the late twenties girl in a love hotel in Tohoku. She wanted to hit her body and strangle her neck, but he declined.
The painter reflected that the man of white Subaru Forester know the ‘thing’ with the late twenties girl, and he felt restless by the presence of the portrait of the man.
28. Franz Kafka Loved Slopes
croquis; dessin; plan; first impression; view to things
The painter asked the Commendatore that the mean of Tomohiko Amada’s ‘Killing Commendatore’ according to the incident occurred in Vienna, 1938. The Commendatore said ‘you should remain the metaphor as it is, and the code as it is’ and he said metaphorically ‘Franz Kafka loved slopes and viewed them for hours’, ‘you should grasp representation as it is’. metier; metaphor; code; truth; representation; young Marlon Brando; Elia Kazan; On the Waterfront; allegory; parable; chesha cat
29. Strange Element, There Might Be Included
Two days later, Mr. Menshiki called the painter. The painter told ‘I want to draw the portrait of Marie by voluntary will and get rid of ‘a form as your request’ to be natural feeling’. code; enigma
Mr. Menshiki called the painter and he said that Marie Akikawa had accepted the offer of her portrait by her enthusiastic will. Then, he told the the attempted assacination incident in Wien committed Tomohiko Amada. Franz Kafka; 1938; Anschluss; President Miklas; Seyß-Inquart; HItler; Himmler; KZ Mauthausen; Goebbels; Kristallnacht; Paris; Herschel Grynszpan; Rath; Candela
The next day, Mr. Menshiki called again and he told ‘Marie Akikawa will visit at 10:00 AM, Sunday’. trust; secret; view; way of thinking
The next day, the painter got a divorce notice from Yuzu. In the house, he reflected the divorce, but he can’t understand the situation, cause and thier progress. sense of mental numbness; morphine for mind
30. There’re Differences Among Individuals in Such a Thing
(…)
31. Perhaps It May Be Too Perfect
(…)
32. His Specialist Skill Was Very Useful
(…)
Details of the Book
Killing Commendatore, Book 1: The Appearing Idea
Haruki Murakami
Sinchosha, Tokyo, 24 February 2017
512 pages
ISBN: 9784103534327
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