Parody and Minimalism in Convenience Store Woman by Murata Sayaka

DOI: 10.18173/2354-1067.2020-0045

Abstract

Convenient Store Woman is the 10th novel of a young and aspiring Japanese writer Murata Sayaka. By the lighthearted and simple narrative style derived from some details like parody and minimalism from the first-person narrator Keiko, the writer establishes a new type of character in the post-modernist era: a non-characteristic character. Besides, from the behavior of mockery and minimalism, her work raises many questions of “the norms” and “anomalies”, and poses the core value of human life