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![]() ![]() (Contemporary Authors, 139) While underground, surrounded by a waterfall and by the INKling creatures, he is hidden from the two competing information organizations that control everything Japan? the System and the Factory. Which, coupled with his brilliant work on computers, makes him the ideal candidate for an aging professor who is hiding in the sewers of Tokyo. “Watashi, the protagonist, is a man without emotion. Two separate narratives? one entitled Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the other The End of the World? progress in alternating chapters. The two parts of the title reflects the double structure of the novel. The parallelism is found within the length of each chapter, the characters, and the significant occurrences. ![]() Throughout the novel, the two worlds increasingly connect and, in the end, Boku and Watashi fuse into one. In Hard-Boiled Wonderland, the character Watashi is assigned to a futuristic Tokyo that is the scene of deadly conflicts between two competing information networks. ![]() ![]() In End of the World, Boku is assigned to the fantasy world of a walled town here, at the end of the world, he serves as the reader of old dreams that are lodged within the skulls of unicorns. In Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Murakami divides the protagonist into two characters, Boku and Watashi. ![]()
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