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aloyamr's review against another edition
The best thing about this short story is that they made a movie adaptation out of it. I am happy to report that it's a masterpiece!
pixieolimpia's review against another edition
4.0
It was interesting to read the story that one of my favorite movies of all time is based on.
esraa_gibreen's review
3.0
إلام ترمز الحظيرة؟ المعني الذي وصلني إنها ترمز للفتيات، فعندما قال الشاب إنه يحرق الحظائر اللواتي لا يعبأ بحرقها أحد، وعندما سُأل ما الحظيرة القادمة للحرق قال: إنها قريبة جدا وكانت الفتاة موجودة بالقرب منه وإنها ليس لديها من يهتم لأمرها، ثم بعد ذلك تختفي الفتاة وتنتهي القصة، ما يمكن استنتاجه من ذلك -حسبما أرى- أن حرق الحظائر ربما يشير إلى قتل الفتيات أو ربما المتاجرة بهم في شبكات للدعارة، خصوصا وإنه يسافر لعدة بلدان وإن الفتاة عندما كانت برفقته قالت: إنه لا يزوال عمل ما، هو فقط يقابل بعض الناس ويجري اتصالات، ومع ذلك فهو يقود سيارة فارهة.
وبالتأكيد القصة لها أكثر من تأويل وإسقاط.
وبالتأكيد القصة لها أكثر من تأويل وإسقاط.
polly_baker's review against another edition
5.0
You could be forgiven for reading this story and thinking it's a bit of a non-event. The bulk of the story is hidden among vast narrative gaps and unknowable characters. And with that comes a deep sense of unease.
The open and naturally trusting nature of the narrator helps disguise reality. His position as a writer makes him react with curiosity rather than alarm towards the boyfriend, romanticising him in writers' terms as "Just like Gatsby, a young man who is a riddle". It is that same characteristic that draws him to the girl at the beginning - she has an air of mystery about her which intrigues both narrator and reader, her captivating mine of peeling tangerines creating the surreal and sublime feeling that "the sense of reality is sucked right out of everything around you".
Indeed, it is a story that muddles appearance and reality, firstly with the invisible tangerines, then the distorting effects of grass and finally the bizarre confession of 'barn burning'. The narrator's fixation on the barns, tracing them across his neighbourhood reveals as much about him as the boyfriend who confessed it.
At the end you are forced to reevaluate everything you were told, trace it backwards, like barns on a map in search of reality. Murakami tactfully doesn't name any characters - leaving them blank and unknowable. Making them noone and everyone at the same time, burdening you with a deep sense of paranoia that these characters live among us, quietly burning barns that no one will miss.
The open and naturally trusting nature of the narrator helps disguise reality. His position as a writer makes him react with curiosity rather than alarm towards the boyfriend, romanticising him in writers' terms as "Just like Gatsby, a young man who is a riddle". It is that same characteristic that draws him to the girl at the beginning - she has an air of mystery about her which intrigues both narrator and reader, her captivating mine of peeling tangerines creating the surreal and sublime feeling that "the sense of reality is sucked right out of everything around you".
Indeed, it is a story that muddles appearance and reality, firstly with the invisible tangerines, then the distorting effects of grass and finally the bizarre confession of 'barn burning'. The narrator's fixation on the barns, tracing them across his neighbourhood reveals as much about him as the boyfriend who confessed it.
At the end you are forced to reevaluate everything you were told, trace it backwards, like barns on a map in search of reality. Murakami tactfully doesn't name any characters - leaving them blank and unknowable. Making them noone and everyone at the same time, burdening you with a deep sense of paranoia that these characters live among us, quietly burning barns that no one will miss.
siaf's review against another edition
1.0
My only question after I read it is that did I not understood or do just the people love to make everything feels deep