by Kenzaburo Oé · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433908926
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The first novel by acclaimed Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oé, 'Pluck the Seeds, Shoot the Kids,' immerses us in the story of fifteen young people from a reformatory, evacuated to a remote mountain village during the war. The town's mayor believes the solution is to eliminate the troublemakers from the root. The narrator, leader of the gang, along with his brother and companions, are marginalized individuals feared by the peasants. After an epidemic, the inhabitants flee, locking the boys in the empty town. In this context, the young people try to build a dignified life, based on love and tribal values, as a response to death and the nightmare of war, an attempt that is inevitably destined to failure. This novel, with influences from Mark Twain, Golding's 'Lord of the Flies,' Mailer, and Camus, stands out for its radical anger, the evocation of myths and archetypes, and Oé's characteristic poetic style.
Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".
