Teach us to Outgrow our Madness: Four Short Novels - Couverture souple

Oe, Kenzaburo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852421630 ISBN 13 : 9781852421632

Editeur : Serpent's Tail, 1989

Synopsis

Prize Stock, the first of the novels included in Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, depicts the relationship between a Japanese boy and a black American airman captured during the second world war. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, the title story, is a semi-autobiographical account of a father coming to terms with his brain-damaged son. Aghwee The Sky Monster is about a young man's first job - chaperoning a banker's son. In The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, the narrator lies on his hospital bed eagerly waiting to die of cancer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kenzaburo Oe is Japan's most important living writer. Born in 1935 on the island of Shikoku, Oe studied literature at Tokyo University before spending the sixties in Paris where he came under the influence of Sartre. After his debut novel, he wrote a string of books dissecting contemporary Japan, including Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!, The Pinch Runner Memorandum and the essay collection Hiroshima Notes, on the impact on Japan's national psyche of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War. He lives in Tokyo with his wife and his eldest son Hikari, who was born with severe brain damage; many of the narrators in Oe's fiction have brain-damaged children, most notably in the semi-autobiographical novel A Personal Matter. He won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Serpent's Tail
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852421630
• ISBN 13: 9781852421632
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible