個人的な体験―A Personal Matter (タトルクラシックス)
A semi-autobiographical novel about fatherhood, disability, and moral responsibility.
Work Information
A semi-autobiographical novel about fatherhood, disability, and moral responsibility.
A semi-autobiographical novel about fatherhood, disability, and moral responsibility.
Book Information
- Publisher
- チャールズ・イー・タトル出版
- Published
- 1969-01-01
- Pages
- 214 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784805306413
- ISBN-10
- 4805306416
- Category
- 本/文学・評論/文芸作品/日本文学
"Bird, the protagonist of A Personal Matters, 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 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 infant son. Should he keep the baby? Dare he kill it? Before he makes his final nightmare of deceit. The honesty with which Oe portrays his hero – or antihero – makes Bird one of the most unforgettable characters in modern Japanese fiction. 『個人的な体験/大江健三郎』英訳書。原書は1964年(昭和39年)に新潮社より発行された。 妻が脳に障害を持つと思われる子を授かったことで、絶望し、子を生かすか、それとも殺すべきかという激しい葛藤を描く。"