Kafka on the shore-1

I tried to do a series of illustrations for Haruki Murakami's fiction "Kafka on The Shore". As a reader of Murakami's books, it's a exciting challenge that watching me to build up the story through my works. However, this was also the most difficult text I have ever worked with. As long as you had ever read his fictions, you couldn't get rid of that layers and layers of metaphors weaved in between the story, such as different time and spaces interlace with each other. Or, to put it more clearly, in this case, the son makes love with his biological mother's teenage spirit, in dreams.

“佐伯小姐跨倒仰臥的你身上，張開腳，將你堅硬得像石頭的陰莖導入自己裡面。你無法選擇。她這樣選擇。她扭著腰像畫圖般深入。她直直的頭髮垂到你肩上，像柳枝般無聲地搖著。你逐漸被吞進柔軟的泥中。世界的一切是溫暖濡濕而不分明的，在那裡面只有你的陰莖是堅硬光澤的存在。你閉上眼睛作你自己的夢。時間的經過變得非常不明確。漲潮、月昇⋯”

海邊的卡夫卡(下) 第29章 P.79

處理性愛場面是我很少碰觸的。在決定描述這場景之前歷經多次掙扎，但是身為主人翁的卡夫卡與母親近乎“神交”的情節，是此書極為重要的段落，這才完成了此書所奠基的希臘悲劇精神。故事中，男孩卡夫卡透過一張母親年輕時灌錄的唱片與母親年輕的靈魂相遇，而一天晚上，現實的母親終於到來，決定了這場亂倫。我讓男孩蓋上被單與母親交合，表示他的被動性，而底下的唱盤轉動，遂成暗潮洶湧的海水，帶領兩人陷入情慾與命運的漩渦而不可自拔。

 “Kafka on The Shore” Taiwan version's cover

   “Kafka on The Shore” U.S.A version's cover