The Tapestry of detachment and nothingness in Haruki Murakami’s work: an experimental interaction between Nihilism and Zen Buddhism
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2024.
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10361-229172024-05-26T21:05:25Z The Tapestry of detachment and nothingness in Haruki Murakami’s work: an experimental interaction between Nihilism and Zen Buddhism Saha, Dola Noman, Abu Sayeed Mohammad Department of English and Humanities, Brac University Eastern philosophy Japanese literature Buddhism Nihilism Zen Japanese literature Buddhism Zen Buddhism Nihilism This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2024. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-58). The philosophical conflict between religion and Atheism has a significant rise around the modern and contemporary times following the historical inconveniences of constant war, loss and decay of moral ground. This paper focuses on aligning the contradictions through the philosophical perspective of Nihilism and Zen Buddhism through the characters of Eastern writer Haruki Murakami who is known to be focused on Western culture and style than the authenticity of his homeland, Japan. Though the main agenda of the thesis is to critically examine the characters from Murakami’s novels and their relation with Nihilism and Buddhism on a simultaneous and intricate aspect, it also explores supernatural themes which are connected to eastern religion and mythology and been used by the author. The paper analysed the historical, cultural, and political realm of Japan in modern times to analyse the characters traits as contemporary Japanese youth in Murakami’s literary universe addressing the duality of choices and actions being simultaneously presented as escapist and confrontational towards life. Therefore, the thesis is an analytical venture to address and link the ideas of Nihilism and Buddhism and their point in human life through the analysis of Murakami’s literary canon as an experiment of double-edged perspective of human life. Dola Saha B.A. in English 2024-05-26T04:27:30Z 2024-05-26T04:27:30Z ©2024 2024-01 Thesis ID 20103020 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/22917 en Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 65 pages application/pdf Brac University |
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