September 11, 2008
Jim Schulz
When it comes to detective stories I never put two and two together and realized just how much abnormality - surrealism or "dream logic" plays into these fictional stories. I've watched many detective stories in my time and it seems that this is just the way it is. Evaluating the characters in "A Wild Sheep Chase" it is very obvious that the characters are more abnormal than normal. Of course this makes the story interesting and without it, I would imagine the story would become boring very quickly. Take the limo driver for example, the only normal thing about him is that he is a limo driver. Abnormal traits include the fact that he seems to talk to much, he knows pi to thirty-two places, and he talks to God by phone. This doesn't seem too normal to me. Looking at other detective stories like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" one has to admit there is very little normality in it, especially mixing real life with cartoon characters.
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Cool speculations. But remember that Murakami plays with hard-boiled conventions. His isn't a straightforward or traditional hard-boiled story. See the works of Chandler or the movies of Huston for examples of the traditional stories. Murakami introduces elements of fantasy and dreams to the genre, creating a hybrid.
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