by Kenzaburo Oe · Garzanti · tapa dura · ISBN 9788811662396
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«L'eco del paradiso» is the novel by Kenzaburo Oe, published by Garzanti in hardback (246 pages, in Italian).
The writer K. remembers Marie, whom he met at a demonstration and whose simplicity left a mark on him. Years later, she has taken refuge in Mexico and helps women and children. The community wants to honour her with a film and commissions K. to write the screenplay, forcing him to relive memories and emotions. A story of pain, redemption and devotion.
Originally published in 1989 as «Jinsei no shinsek»; translation by Gianluca Coci. Second edition in the Narratori moderni collection.
For readers of Japanese fiction and admirers of Nobel Prize in Literature winner Kenzaburo Oe.
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".
