In Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami applies to the novel, for the first time, the juxtaposition of double narrative lines: the two apparently parallel and independent stories in odd and even numbered chapters respectively serve actually as two phases of one story which is developed chronologically on the same axis of time. This narrative structure helps to not only realize the writer's intention of effective transition of brain text, but also draw the readers' attention to the key word of the nove...
