Pegasus on the shore...

Hello, I am Pegasus !

I am sixteen, nearly seventeen and I live in Bourges.

I love Harry Potter (favourite character: Bellatrix Lestrange) and Game of Thrones (favourite character: Sansa Stark).

I listen to symphonic metal, my favorite groups are Haggard and Blind Guardian.

I draw and paint sometimes, when I can find inspiration… It is an important part of my life!

I really love reading and I read a lot.

My favorite book is Kafka on the Shore, a magical realist novel published in 2002 by Haruki Murakami, a Japanese author. This book is great!

There are two interrelated stories:

During the odd chapters we can follow Kafka's story. He's a 15 years old boy, trying to escape an Oedipal prophecy, while some chapters tell Nakata's story, an old man working as a finder of lost cats.

Then, those unusual characters are both carried away in an unexpected and shattering adventure...

 This magical-realist book make us think about the relation between dreams, subconscious and reality.

Moreover, Murakami's writing style is amazing, there are a lot of metaphors and it looks really poetic. He also makes a lot of references to other books, authors, musics… What an interesting writer!

If you don't know what to read I can advise you this novel!

Here are some beautiful quotes from Kafka on the Shore to convince you!

•‪ “If you remember me, then I don't care if anyone else forgets.”

•‪ “When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages -a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.”

•‪ “You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't suppress dreams.”

•‪ “Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in.”