by Kenzaburo Oé · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422643180
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«Una cuestión personal» is the novel by Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oé, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (207 pages, in Spanish).
Bird, a young English teacher in contemporary Japan, dreams of escaping to Africa, but the birth of his son with a severe brain malformation plunges him into a crisis. Over three days he must decide between embracing fatherhood or fleeing; he is accompanied by Himiko, a former companion. A novel about responsibility and the search for meaning.
The work was originally published in 1964 under the title «Kojinteki na Taiken» and belongs to the Narradores del Mundo collection. Kenzaburo Oé received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
For readers of literary fiction interested in Japanese literature and its twentieth-century classics.
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".
