THE WIND UP BIRD CHRONICLE AND THE ORIGINAL TWIN PEAKS

These share numerous similarities, too obvious to list, but the one that is complex and worth mentioning is the fact that the same villain has entered each story and caused trouble in each respective universe.

In both pieces, a man’s mind becomes occupied by an evil character who uses that man to abuse and even destroy someone in his family. With the employment of the supernatural and abstract features, the characters are held accountable for their choices but not reduced to cartoonish “bad guys”. These abstractions allow the storyteller to include the external mental and spiritual landscape that participated in the shaping of these monstrous events.

In both cases, the villain is a personification of the “cycle of violence”.