Toptitel von Kenzaburo Oe
Der atemlose Stern
Buch mit Leinen-Einband
Auf Shikoku, der Insel von Oes Herkunft, versucht Bruder Gii, seinen Ahnungen folgend, eine neue Kirche zu errichten. Mit kritischer Distanz und als skeptischer Humanist verfolgt Kenzaburo Oe diesen für unsere Zeit exemplarischen Versuch und sein Scheitern, der die Ungelöstheit der modernen "Bedürfnisse der Seele" unterstreicht.…mehr
24,90 €
A Personal Matter
Broschiertes Buch
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.…mehr
16,99 €
