Kafka on the Shore
Describe symbolism in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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The boy believes that Kafka's strange torture- and learning-machine in the story "In the Penal Colony" is an existential symbol for enlightenment through suffering and out of reverence he resolves to re-christen himself Kafka, or in full Kafka Tamura.
Kafka on the Shore