Reflections around the uncanny in two scenes of the japanese novelist Haruki Murakami

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Claudia Lira Latuz

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Based on the texts of Heidegger and Freud, this article intends to give an account of the concept of the uncanny and to apply it to some of the novels of the Japanese Haruki Murakami. Thus, the uncanny is presented as a sign loaded with a wide range of significations which span ‘the familiar’ (heimlich) touching on ‘creeping horror’ to end at the ‘ominous’.

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Claudia Lira Latuz, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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