1q84

Five dimensions world in 1Q84

It took us almost six weeks to read through Murakami’s newest and longest novel 1Q84 whose chronological time ranges from April to December 1984/1Q84. When the eleven months is converted into six weeks reading, readers could feel how Murakami’s idea expresses consecutively and intensively in a horizontal time period. On the other hand, the two worlds (or three worlds) in the novel have expanded the space to a vertical part that Aomame and Tengo linked together through the worlds. Those settings lead the book to be a five dimensions background structures influenced readers’ subconscious deeply. In general, four dimensions story is very common in many books but five dimensions stories are only common in science fiction. 1Q84, which took Murakami two years to finish, has a different but similar world in the story. Aomame called it 1Q84, and Tengo called it town of cats. Further Murakami is very carefully on detailed time from months to minutes. This idea helps not only establish the consistent of the story but also vividly reflect each character’s actions time to time. However, Murakami himself did not express much idea of the two distinct but related worlds. Is 1Q84 a parallel world of the real 1984? Did Aomame and Tengo finally return the origin world 1984? From my point of view, those answers are no. The combination of three dimensions of space, fourth dimension time and fifth dimension gravity that is the 1Q84 universe created a complicated story by Murakami. Five dimensions lead Aomame and Tengo recall their young childhood’s memory, synchronize their activities, and finally meet together to change the current 1Q84.

First of all, the three spatial dimension reacts as a significant role to the story especially in Book 3. For example, Aomame's safe house is only around fifteen minutes from Tengo's house so that she has chance to first time see Tengo in the park. Ushikawa chooses at upstairs to monitor Tengo which guides him find...