The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow.
"In 'Hard-boiled Wonderland' a 'shuffler' is at work in Tokyo, where the minds of the people have become servant to the requirements of the governmental 'system'. In the surreal realm of the 'End of the World' a 'dreamreader', sifts through memories, scattering them to oblivion. Gradually the alternate universes of the 'shuffler' and the 'dreamreader' are interwoven and Murakami's ingenious conception of the mind becomes clear."
"Pour se rendre chez le vieux savant qui l'a engagé un informaticien prend un ascenceur tellement lent qu'on se sait pas s'il monte ou il descend. A l'arrivée, une jeune fille rondouillette et charmante l'accueille par un "C'est un rat" pour le moins étrange. Bienvenue au Pays des merveilles sans merci. Un roman palpitant aux frontières du quotidien et du merveilleux."
"Mit kühner Fantastik und Fabulierkunst verbindet Japans größter zeitgenössischer Romancier in seinem frühen und seit langem im Deutschen vergriffenen Roman zwei Welten, von denen die eine Hard-boiled Wonderland und die andere Das Ende der Welt heißt: 'Hard-boiled Wonderland und das Ende der Welt' erzählt im Wechsel der Kapitel und der Zeiten von zwei parallelen und wundersamen Reisen. In einem futuristisch brutalen Tokyo der fernen Gegenwart, tobt ein Datenkrieg zwischen dem 'System' der Kalkulatoren und einer Datenmafia, der 'Fabrik' der Semioten. Ein genialer und greiser Professor hat durch ein sicheres Codierverfahren im Unterbewusstsein allen Datendiebstahl unmöglich gemacht. Der Held und Ich-Erzähler in 'Hard-boiled Wonderland und das Ende der Welt' überlebt die Bearbeitung seines Gehirns, aber nach einem Überfall auf das unterirdische Geheimlabor des Professors ist der implantierte 'Psychokern' wie eine Bombe im Hirn nicht mehr beherrschbar. 'Hard-boiled Wonderland und das Ende der Welt' ist ein faszinierendes Leseabenteuer, rasant konstruiert zwischen den beiden Welten - einer realen an der Schwelle des Todes und einer anderen, zeitlos und zugleich seelenlos."
"Un roman où se mêlent deux intrigues. Le narrateur entraîne tout d'abord le lecteur dans un monde de science-fiction où règne un suspense rocambolesque, puis dans un univers imaginaire insidieusement matérialisé. Les deux mondes finissent par s'emboîter. Prix Tanizaki 1985."
"Le narrateur, un informaticien de très haut niveau, qui effectue des missions spéciales, apporte un jour sa collaboration à un vieux savant dont le laboratoire se situe dans les sous-sols obscurs d'un immeuble. Dès lors, il est entraîné dans une aventure terrifiante. Parallèlement à ce Hard-boiled wonderland, interviennent en alternance les chapitres de La Fin des temps : le narrateur se trouve prisonnier d'une ville onirique, peuplée de licornes au pelage doré. Les deux intrigues se rejoindront finalement. De même que son personnage flirte avec d'anodines jeunes filles, Haruki Murakami courtise ici le mythe -- ce qui nous vaut une fable d'une prenante étrangeté."
""La rencontre de Lovecraft et de H.G. Wells sur un écran d'ordinateur" selon Frédéric Vitoux. Double histoire parallèle d'un jeune informaticien convoqué par un vieux savant, spécialiste du cerveau et d'un analyste des rêves de licornes enfermé dans une ville-prison. Inventif, fantasque, amusant."
"The contemporary and the mythic collide in this hard-boiled tale of computers and conspiracy theories, unicorns and ancient lands."
"Translated from the Japanese by: Alfred Birnbaum. Tranlation of: "Sekai no owari to hado-boirudo wandarando.""
""Dos historias paralelas se desarrollan en escenarios de nombre evocador: una transcurre en el llamado "fin del mundo", una misteriosa ciudad amurallada; la otra, en un Tokio de un futuro quizá no muy lejano, un frío y despiadado país de las maravillas. En la primera, el narrador y protagonista, anónimo, se ve privado de su sombra, poco a poco también de sus recuerdos, e impelido a leer sueños entre unos habitantes de extrañas carencias anímicas y unicornios cuyo pelaje se torna dorado en invierno. En la segunda historia, el protagonista es un informático de gustos refinados que trabaja en una turbia institución gubernamental, enfrentada a otra organización no menos siniestra en una guerra por el control de la información; sus servicios son requeridos por un inquietante científico que juguetea con la manipulación de la mente." --Contratapa."@es
"The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow."@en
"The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow."
"Bienvenue aux pays des merveilles sans merci! Un roman palpitant, aux frontières du quotidien et du merveilleux."
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