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Ladataan... A Personal Matter (1964)Tekijä: Kenzaburō Ōe
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Nobel Price Winners (62) » 8 lisää Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. No review - read too long ago to recall. ( ![]() "...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. "Una cuestión personal", una de sus mejores y más crueles novelas, animada de una extraña violencia interior, cuenta la terrible odisea de Bird, un joven profesor de inglés abrumado por una cenagosa existencia cotidiana en el Japón contemporáneo. Su anhelo secreto es redimirse a través de un mítico viaje por África, donde, según cree, su vida renacerá plena de sentido. Pero tales proyectos sufren un vuelco de ciento ochenta grados: su esposa da a luz un monstruoso bebé, condenado a una muerte inminente o, en el mejor de los casos, a una vida de vegetal. Este hecho convulsiona el lánguido e indolente existir de Bird y, durante tres días y tres noches, se arrastra por un implacable recorrido hacia lo más profundo de su abismo interior. Descenso a los infiernos en el que le acompañará Himiko, una vieja compañera de estudios. Bird buscará refugio en el alcohol, en los brazos de Himiko y, principalmente, en su propia vergüenza y humillación: ¿debe aceptar la fatalidad, cargar para siempre con un hijo anormal y renunciar a sus planes de una vida mejor o, por el contrario, debe desembarazarse del bebé provocando un desenlace fatal? ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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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. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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