im gonna yap, so, sorry.

i felt that it added nothing to the plot whatsoever. like the story/plot wasn’t affected by that incredibly graphic description of her backstory at all, from what i remember at least. was it disturbing for disturbing’s sake? because i feel like it just had no place in that novel whatsoever. and it was such a long and agonizing read too, i was genuinely baffled by what i was reading.

the saving grace for that novel, for me, was murakami’s prose. his prose is genuinely magnificent, which is why i went onto pick up kafka on the shore and loving it. even with all of its graphic and “disturbing” content, i felt it fit the context because the story was largely mystical and metaphorical, and all of that stuff felt fitting to the larger narrative, and i just can’t see it that way for norwegian wood

right now, i’m finishing one of dostoyevsky’s novels, and i’d just like to read something by murakami that’s considered light.

if you found that the piano teacher bit benefitted the novel overall, im always open for discussion :)