by Kenzaburo Oé · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433931511
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«Una cuestión personal» is the novel by Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oé, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (190 pages, in Spanish).
Bird, a young English teacher in contemporary Japan, sees his dream of escaping to Africa crumble when his wife gives birth to a baby with severe malformations. Over three days and three nights, amid alcohol and the company of Himiko, a former classmate, he must decide whether to accept fate and bear the burden of his son or flee that responsibility, descending into his own inner abyss.
The work belongs to the Panorama de narrativas collection, where it occupies number 151.
Aimed at readers of literary and contemporary fiction, particularly those seeking twentieth-century Japanese 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".
