He sits down on a bench and starts musing about the husband, the “loneliest man on the planet.” In the whimsical figure of the unicorn with its phallic-like horn he sees a universal symbol of all lonely men. He develops the habit of walking along a path in a park that leads him to the statue of a unicorn.
The widowed husband’s phone call brings about a painful intensification of the narrator’s endless remembering and longing. Murakami displays his singular genius in moments.when he manages to find a concrete image for human emotion. For Murakami, the process of thinking is what matters, and in this collection of seven stories Murakami wants us to consider the paradoxical interrelatedness of love and loneliness, specifically, how certain men become “Men Without Women.” Each story or novel derives from an unsolvable mystery. Such a line of questioning forms the boilerplate for all of Murakami’s fiction. But why? To get me thinking about something?” … It seemed his intention was to leave me stuck somewhere in the middle, dangling between knowledge and ignorance. Instead, he fixates on the motivations of the caller, M.’s husband: “he didn’t explain a single thing to me. I hoped it wasn’t because of me.” He drops the matter of his possible complicity as quickly as he raises it. He ponders this fact: “Why these women, all still young, had taken their lives, or felt compelled to take their lives, was beyond my comprehension.
is the third woman that he dated who killed herself. The call surprises the narrator for several reasons.
In the title story for his new collection, “Men Without Women,” Haruki Murakami has his unnamed, middle-aged narrator receive a phone call at 3 in the morning informing him that his ex-girlfriend M.
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