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A Personal Matter

By Kenzaburo Oe

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A Personal Matter

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Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel." In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child? Bird, the protagonist, is a young man of 27 with antisocial tendencies who more than once in his life, when confronted with a critical problem, has "cast himself adrift on a sea of whisky 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 newborn infant-monster. Should he keep it? Dare he kill it? Before he makes his final decision, Bird's entire past seems to rise up before him, revealing itself to be a nightmare of self-deceit. The relentless honesty with which Oe portrays his hero -- or antihero -- makes Bird one of the most unforgettable characters in recent fiction.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
214
Release Date:
1994-01-13
Publication Date:
1994-01-13
Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0802150616
ISBN13:
9780802150615
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
169 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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