Matter-of-Fact and Confusion

In an interview with The Paris Review Murakami says of his own style: "The story is very complicated and very hard to follow. But my style, my prose, is very easy to read." I definitely agree, and I think that's a big reason as to why his writing is so compelling. He truly creates a beautiful balance between Boku's almost dead-pan voice and straightforward observations and the spider-web like complications of of his plot - and on a bigger scale, life. In a way, Murakami's writing (and specifically his main character) categorizes and clears up certain of life's mysteries all while creating new mysteries in the text for readers to categorize and clear up themselves.