‘Abandoning a Cat’ Review: The Poetics of Family Trauma
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‘Abandoning a Cat’ Review: The Poetics of Family Trauma

B2中高级2026年11月4日44分钟

Haruki Murakami’s Abandoning a Cat is a reflective personal essay examining family trauma, wartime history, and intergenerational silence. The narrative centers on an unresolved childhood memory of taking a family cat to the beach to abandon it, only to find the animal had somehow beaten them home. This enigmatic event mirrors the life of the author's father, a former soldier-priest whose unexpressed wartime experiences and strained relationship with his son left lasting emotional residue. By embracing epistemological humility, Murakami resists offering neat narrative closures or moral simplifications about his lineage. Instead, the book demonstrates how national violence and personal ex...

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So picture this, you find a sturdy cardboard box. Okay. You coax your family cat inside, you fold the flaps down and you carefully balance

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this box on the back of a bicycle. Which already sounds like a bit of a precarious setup, right? Oh, absolutely. But you do it and then you pedal two kilometers away

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from your home and you carry the box into a thick grove of trees near the beach and you, well, you just leave it there. Well, just walk away.

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