A personal matter /
Ōe, Kenzaburō, 1935-
A personal matter / [Book] / Kenzaburō Ōe ; translated from the Japanese by John Nathan. - 1st Evergreen ed. - New York : Grove Weidenfeld, c1982. - x, 165 p. - An Evergreen black cat book .
Translation of: Kojinteki na taiken.
Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Oe for his "poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." His most popular book, A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose Utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. “In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.”—Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor.
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A personal matter / [Book] / Kenzaburō Ōe ; translated from the Japanese by John Nathan. - 1st Evergreen ed. - New York : Grove Weidenfeld, c1982. - x, 165 p. - An Evergreen black cat book .
Translation of: Kojinteki na taiken.
Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Oe for his "poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." His most popular book, A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose Utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. “In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.”—Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor.
All. All.
0802150616 0394171411 9780802150615 0802142044
Sea-power.
895.635 895.6 3 5 895.6 3 5