by Kenzaburo Oé · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433906755
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«El grito silencioso» is the contemporary fiction novel by Kenzaburo Oé, published by Anagrama in hardback (352 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi, marked by the legacy of an ancestor who led a peasant revolt in 1861. Back in Shikoku, Takashi tries to emulate that courage, while Mitsu faces a personal crisis in a deteriorating marriage; family memory intertwines with Japan's transformation.
The work won the Tanizaki Prize in 1967, and this edition, translated by Miguel Wandenbergh, was published in 1995 in the Panorama de narrativas collection (no. 324).
It is aimed at readers of literary fiction and Japanese narrative, with a taste for stories that weave together family memory, history and myth.
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".
