The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by

Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird

The wind-up bird is the most prominent symbol in novel, and it represents the possibility that free will is an illusion. The wind-up bird is a bird in Toru’s neighborhood that makes a mechanical…

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The Well

In The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, wells are a physical manifestation of an individual’s subconscious and unconscious mind. Like the subconscious and the unconscious mind, wells literally lie beneath the surface of what is known…

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