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Definition of Irony
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. If this seems like a loose definition... read full definition
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. If this... read full definition
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how... read full definition
Key Examples in Kafka on the Shore
Chapter 28
Explanation and Analysis—The Philosophy Student:
Before finding the entrance stone, Hoshino goes to a love hotel with a girl whom Colonel Sanders hires for him. In the middle of lovemaking, the girl quotes the French philosopher Henri Bergson and explains that she is a philosophy student making money on the side. The improbable reveal subverts associations of sex work as a low-class profession by pairing it with a high-class field of study:
“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” Hoshino looked up, mouth half open, and gazed at her face. “What’s that?” “Henri Bergson,” she replied, licking the semen from the tip of his penis. “Mame mo memelay.” “I’m sorry?” “Matter and Memory. You ever read it?”
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