Name: A Personal Matter
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Author: Kenzaburo Oe
ISBN: 9780802150615

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kenzaburo Oe

Translated by

John Nathan

Publisher

Grove Press

Year

1994

Language

English

Pages

214

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.7 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0802150616

ISBN13

9780802150615

Synopsis "A Personal Matter"

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

Kenzaburo Oe

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(Ose, 1935 - Tokio, 2023) fue el símbolo y el portavoz de su generación y uno de los grandes escritores japoneses de nuestro tiempo. Obtuvo los galardones literarios más importantes de su país, ratificados en 1989 por el Europalia de la Comunidad Europea y en 1994 por el Premio Nobel de Literatura. En 2007, obtuvo la máxima condecoración francesa, la Legión de Honor.

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