Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a surreal, genre-blending novel by Haruki Murakami that intertwines cyberpunk noir with a dreamlike allegorical world to explore memory, consciousness, and identity.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese novel
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fantasy novel ⓘ novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Haruki Murakami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
the Gatekeeper
NERFINISHED
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the Librarian NERFINISHED ⓘ the Professor NERFINISHED ⓘ the Professor's granddaughter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| englishPublicationYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| englishTranslator | Alfred Birnbaum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
cyberpunk
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fantasy ⓘ magical realism ⓘ noir ⓘ science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ surrealism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
End of the World storyline
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland storyline ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
cyberpunk literature
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noir fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Calcutec
NERFINISHED
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the Dreamreader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motif |
labyrinths
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music ⓘ unicorn skulls ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | dual narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of the unconscious mind
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interweaving parallel worlds ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| originalTitle | 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| publisherInJapan | Shinchosha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Tokyo
NERFINISHED
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a walled Town ⓘ |
| style |
genre-blending
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surreal ⓘ |
| theme |
consciousness
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free will ⓘ identity ⓘ isolation ⓘ memory ⓘ the nature of reality ⓘ the subconscious ⓘ |
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