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Sto caricando le informazioni... Un'esperienza personale (1964)di Kenzaburō Ōe
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. "...If i may be frank, I think the baby would be better off dead, and so would you and your wife." In addition to the usual self-dealing quality, so-called "Multiverse Theory," when employed in the context of post-war Japan, also has the fateful reminiscence of the atomic/quantum theory which has precipitated the most recent catastrophe Fatherhood as conferring the egocentric boon which is the expurgation of passive personality traits, though with conspicuous neglect of the actually existing child (and wife) considered as a person, a lack of consideration (perhaps the ability to conceive of a consideration) which persists despite the magnanimous swoon which saves a life. This short book packed a big punch. It's the story of a boy-like young man, Bird, confronting a terrible situation where his newborn son has a severe deformity of the head. The story takes course over a short period of time and illustrates the mental anguish Bird goes through as he determines how to deal with this unexpected blow to his life. He finds solace in the arms of an ex-girlfriend, and the story takes interesting turns from there. The language is wonderful, the story satisfying, and the characters very well developed . . .I completely see why this author was a Nobel prize winner for literature. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Bird, the protagonist of A Personal Matter, is a frustrated young intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. More than once when confronted with a problem, he has 'cast himself adrift on a sea of whiskey like a besotted Robinson Crusoe', but he has never faced a crisis as personal or grave as the prospect of life imprisonment in the cage of his infant son. Should he keep the baby? Dare he kill it? Before he makes his final decision, Bird's entire past rises up before him, revealing itself to be a nightmare of deceit. The honesty with which Oe portrays his hero - or antihero - makes Bird one of the most unforgettable characters in modern Japanese fiction. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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the language was interesting, i admire the skill of the translator here. it is not the japanese i’m used to reading (via translation) and i desperately want to know what Mishima said to Oë to get into a fist fight. a really nauseating novel — lots of vomiting, shame, assault, just hateful behavior. the language was wheezy, collapsing, slurring, and not just because the narrator, Bird, spends a lot of time drunk and throwing up. strange assortments of words and sentences like someone talking really fast and then gulping air, but all within a single sentence or a paragraph. the compacted timeline adds to this, the whole novel is 150 pages or so and takes place over three or four days.
I understand that trying to kill your infant child is something you spend the rest of your life trying to get over but I don't want to take part in that any longer, and most if not all of Oë's fiction has his disabled child in it as a character. I'll read more Oë but not anymore of his fiction. ( )