An Existential Reading of Haruki Murakami’s “Men Without Women”

ABSTRACT :This paper aims at finding out the existential crisis and alienation of human beings in themodern world through a study of Haruki Murakami‟s short story “Men Without Women”. Philosophy ofExistentialism and Alienation from Heidegger and Sartre have been used by the researcher to analyze thenarrative of Murakami‟s “Men Without Women”. Following the qualitative approach of research, the analysis isdone through the discussion of the Existentialism theories and in-depth analysis of written or printedinformation related to the research topic. This research focuses on three essential components of human being‟salienation; alienation from self, alienation from fellow human beings and alienation from social institutions.

KEYWORDS: Murakami, Agony, Existentialism, Alienation