Personal Matter

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Kenzaburō Ōe: Personal Matter (1970, Grove Press)

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Publié 19 janvier 1970 par Grove Press.

ISBN :
978-0-394-17141-8
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Numéro OCLC :
442252

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Kenzaburō Ōe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War 2 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 Ōe 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 personal 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.

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stuck in a cave

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The main character describes his problem/dilemma in this book as being sort of stuck in a cave, a "personal matter" that is purely his own and that he can't really share with others. Reading this book is being stuck in that cave with Bird, meaning that it's dark and impossible to see a way out.

The ending actually reveals Oe's struggle to figure a way out for the character and the novel - the deus ex machina is not very fulfilling but also sort of understandable given how the narrative progresses.

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