Author(s): Anushila Jana

Abstract: Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore" remains an exceptional illustration of postmodern writing, where divided stories and obscured real factors challenge customary narrating. Through characters like Kafka, Oshima, and Nakata, Murakami investigates the intricacies of personality, ease, and the exchange between cultural standards and individual encounters. This story's intricacy, improved by components of structuralism and deconstruction, welcomes readers to connect effectively, embrace vagueness, and question the limitations of the real world and creative mind, making "Kafka on the Shore" a dazzling excursion through the complex embroidery of the human life.

Keywords: Postmodern Writing, Intricacies of Identity, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Questioning Reality

Article Info: Received: 29 Oct 2025; Received in revised form: 29 Nov 2025; Accepted: 02 Dec 2025; Available online: 05 Dec 2025

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.106.43