A Personal Matter
- ISBN 10: 0802150616
- ISBN 13: 9780802150615
- Author: Kenzaburo OĂ«
- Edition: Paperback
- Release: 1994-01-13
- Format: Paperback (165 pages)
- List Price: $13.00
- Tags: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, History & Criticism, Asian,
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Book Description: 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.
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