Murakami Haruki - individual song first person

The singular, first person is not a dry grammatical category this time, but the telling title of Haruki Murakami's new book of short stories. It contains eight perfectly tailored stories, told as personal confessions. The unnamed narrator is a lonely, no longer young man, who sometimes nostalgically looks back on childhood, youth and growing up, reflects on long-gone relationships, loves, losses, death, and sometimes tells a bizarre story as if it were a self-evident reality. And whether this narrator is the author himself, or someone else, is for the reader to decide, while immersing himself in the stories with a strange tone, sometimes wise, sometimes whimsical, written with a delicate sensibility, which, of course, do not lack the twists typical of the world-famous Japanese writer.
There are authors who hold up a mirror to the world, in Haruki Murakami's writings the mirror opens the door to the enigmatic universe behind it. Where exactly is this secret domain? In us, people, in our lives, past, present, memories, dreams and desires. Or where we find it, Murakami leaves it up to us, as he does many things.