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Haruki Murakami’s Covid parable: The walled city of tranquility with no desire or pain, or the real world beyond full of suffering and contradictionHaruki Murakami’s Covid parable: The walled city of tranquility with no desire or pain, or the real world beyond full of suffering and contradiction

Haruki Murakami’s Covid parable: The walled city of tranquility with no desire or pain, or the real world beyond full of suffering and contradiction

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press on June 7, 2023

“Everybody seems to be confronted with a choice," Murakami said at Wellesley College, "to hide behind the walls, preserving safety and the status quo or, knowing the risks, to emerge beyond the walls in search of a freer value system...