The concept of symbols in the Trilogy of the Rat by Haruki Murakami

Abstract

This article explores the symbolism of Haruki Murakami's novels “Hear the Wind Sing”, “Pinball, 1973” and “A Wild Sheep Chase”. Each character and location in these novels has its own emotional and allegorical meaning, symbols are a conventional designation for those or other abstract concepts. Therefore, we tried to identify artistic symbols in the works and determine their functions.