THE ELEPHANT VANISHES

           This story is also first person narrator.This story also written by HARUKI MURAKAMI. In this story written in English in 19 ved.The stories were written between 1980 and 1991,and published in Japan in various magazines, then collections. 

             This story is also related in post modernism.About this story called unrealible narrator. 

               The short story "The Elephant Vanishes" inspired a research paper[6] on Asian elephants and their impact on the well-being of the rural poor in India.

         

.        Most of Haruki Murakami's works use first-person narrative in the tradition of the Japanese I Novel.Another notable feature of Murakami's stories are the comments that come from the main characters as to how strange the story presents itself. Murakami explains that his characters experience what he experiences as he writes, which could be compared to a movie set where the walls and props are all fake.

             "I am one of those people who read the paper from beginning to end,in order......"

         In this story many questions....

How did the old elephant manage to slip out of the locked steel cuff around his leg? 

In other words - how can such a large animal simply vanish?

    In this story also the reality about culture v/s nature example.About this story also there are lots of things we are not understand.