The Elephant Vanishes | Celeste Loughman

In the following essay, Loughman explores how the stories in The Elephant Vanishes "offer a good overview of the patterns and variety to be found in Murakami," including a connection to early Shinto beliefs in "The Elephant Vanishes."

Celeste Loughman

In the following essay, Loughman explores how the stories in The Elephant Vanishes "offer a good overview of the patterns and variety to be found in Murakami," including a connection to early Shinto beliefs in "The Elephant Vanishes."

Japanese children and their attendants on a playground © Bohemian Nomad Picturmakers/Corbis

The opening scene of Natsume Sōseki's 1914 novel Kokoro shows Sensei, the central figure, at a beach...

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