The incident is initially blamed on poisonous gas, but it is later revealed that it was the result of a lustful teacher beating Nakata. They start with military reports of a strange incident in Yamanashi Prefecture where multiple children, including Nakata, collapse in the woods - Nakata, after the incident, is the only one of the children who came out of the incident without any memory and unable to read and write. The even-numbered chapters tell Nakata's story.
Oshima brings him to the forests of Kōchi Prefecture, where Kafka is ultimately healed. There he spends his days reading the unabridged Richard Francis Burton translation of One Thousand and One Nights and the collected works of Natsume Sōseki until the police begin inquiring after him in connection with the murder of his father that he does not know he has committed. After a series of adventures, he finds shelter in a quiet, private library in Takamatsu, run by the distant and aloof Miss Saeki and the intelligent and more welcoming Oshima.
The odd-numbered chapters tell the 15-year-old Kafka's story as he runs away from his father's house to escape an Oedipal curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister. : 64–65 Plot summary Ĭomprising two distinct but interrelated plots, the narrative runs back and forth between both plots, taking up each plotline in alternating chapters. Psychoanalyst Hayao Kawai saw special meaning in the name "Kafka", as its Japanese version, Kafuka ( Japanese: カフカ), could be a combination of 可 ( ka, meaning possible or good) and 不可 ( fuka, meaning the opposite), thus giving the book liminality. He compares it to titles such as Genji on the Hudson. The title of the book, according to Alan Cheuse of NPR, is suggestive and mysterious to Japanese readers - Franz Kafka is categorized as a Western writer who is well-known by Americans but is not so in Japan.
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