A personal matter
By: Kenzaburo Oe ; translated from the Japanese by John Nathan
Contributors: Nathan, John
Series: Tuttle classics; 100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan; 100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan; Tuttle classics
Publisher: Tuttle Pub.
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9784805306413
Subjects: Fiction; Japán irodalom; Elbeszélés
Work titles: Kojinteki na taiken
Description: "Bird, the protagonist of a Personal Matter, is a frustrated young intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. More than once when confronted with a problem, he has "cast himself adrift on a sea of whiskey 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 infant son. Should he keep the baby? Dare he kill it? Before he makes his final decision, Bird's entire past rises up before him, revealing itself to be a nightmare of deceit."--Back cover.
Notes: Translation of: Kojinteki na taiken.

"First Tuttle edition, 1969"--Title page verso.

"Kenzaburo Oe, Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature ..."--Page face title page.