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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. As most books sit on my list until I can go into them with no expectations, I was prepared just to read some new stories. However, the introduction first drops a 'charming' story about the author walking up to a colleague's wife and calling her a c***, excerpts some of the most racial moments of the book, and then explains the very first piece is so private and difficult to follow that most people never finish it. Way to whet my appetite! I debated not bothering and then settled on starting at the second story. Here at the end I can say that was good preparation, because these are intense, inward, ugly stories. There's a realism that I appreciate, but I'm not running out to buy more of his work. ( ) > Par LEXPRESS.fr : Dites-nous comment survivre à notre folie par Kenzaburo Oe 01/11/2005 ... Le recueil de quatre récits marqués par deux drames: la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la naissance, en 1964, du fils de l'auteur, handicapé mental. ____________________ Kenzaburô Oé, Dites-nous comment survivre à notre folie, traduit du japonais par M. Mécréant, Gallimard (1982), 372 pages ”Dites-nous comment survivre à notre folie” de Kenzaburo Oe (Prix Nobel de Littérature 1994) regroupe quatre nouvelles d’inspiration autobiographique. Difficile enfance dans le Japon en guerre, relations complexes avec père, mère et fils, coexistence et entremêlement du mythe, du rêve, de la folie et du souvenir. Des textes denses et exigeants qui plongent le lecteur dans un univers sans concession, à la violence latente et toujours au bord de l’aliénation. Wow! This was an exceedingly challenging read, especially The Day He Himself Shall Wipe Away My Tears. I enjoyed all 4 novellas and that they shared some thematic similarities. Particularly, strained and damaged relationships between sons and fathers, and the process of spinning towards insanity. Prize Stock was my favorite and the most accessible. I'm not sure this collection would appeal to "most" people but it you've read other Oe works, can make your way through Faulkner or similar, then this might be for you. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Kenzaburō Ōe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing "reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of the values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other ... [His] heroes have been expelled from the certainty of childhood, into a world that bears no relation to their past"--Back cover.
"These four novels display Oe's passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other. The earliest of his novels included here, Prize Stock, reveals the strange relationship between a Japanese boy and a captured black American pilot in a Japanese village. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness tells of the close relationship between an outlandishly fat father and his mentally defective son, Eeyore. Aghwee the Sky Monster is about a young man's first job -- chaperoning a banker's son who is haunted by the ghost of a baby in a white nightgown. The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away is the longest piece in this collection and Oe's most disturbing work to date. The narrator lies in a hospital bed waiting to die of a liver cancer that he has probably imagined, wearing a pair of underwater goggles covered with dark cellophane."--Amazon.com. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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