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En un poblet aïllat del món, la guerra només s'ensuma quan algun avió enemic sobrevola les muntanyes que l'envolten. Un matí d'estiu, però, la vida pausada d'aquell indret i d'aquella gent de cop es

Revelación literaria en los años cincuenta, Kenzaburo Oé quedó consagrado como el mejor novelista japonés de la generación posterior a Yukio Mishima desde los años sesenta y se ha afirmado que recuerda a Dante, William Blake y Malcom Lowry. "Una cuestion personal", una de sus mejores y mas crueles novelas, animada de una extraña violencia interior, cuenta la terrible odisea de Bird, un joven profesor de ingles abrumado por una cenagosa existencia cotidiana en el Japon contemporaneo. Su anhelo secreto es redimirse a traves de un mitico viaje por Africa, donde, segun cree, su vida renacera plena de sentido. Pero tales proyectos sufren un vuelco de ciento ochenta grados: su esposa da a luz un monstruoso bebe, condenado a una muerte inminente o, en el mejor de los casos, a una vida de vegetal. Este hecho convulsiona el languido e indolente existir de Bird y, durante tres dias y tres noches, se arrastra por un implacable recorrido hacia lo mas profundo de su abismo interior. Descenso a los infiernos en el que le acompañara Himiko, una vieja compañera de estudios. Bird buscara refugio en el alcohol, en los brazos de Himiko y, principalmente, en su propia verguenza y humillacion: ¿debe aceptar la fatalidad, cargar para siempre con un hijo anormal y renunciar a sus planes de una vida mejor o, por el contrario, debe desembarazarse del bebe provocando un desenlace fatal?

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"life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today"

Durante la guerra del Pacífico un avión enemigo se estrella. Harán prisionero al único superviviente, un soldado negro. El prisionero se convertirá, para los niños, en una especie de animal domestica

Kenzaburo Oe is one of the most original and important writers of your time, and nowhere is his genius more evident than in A Quiet Life -- an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a young woman who at the age of twenty gets caught up in an unusual family situation. Her father is a famous and fascinating novelist; her older brother, though severely brain-damaged, possesses an almost magical gift for musical composition; and her mother's life is devoted to the care of them both. Ma-chan and her younger brother find themselves emotionally on the outside of this oddly constructed nuclear family. But when her father accepts a visiting professorship from an American university, Ma-chan finds herself suddenly the head of the household and at the center of family relationships that she must begin to redefine.

Hiroshima Notes is a moving statement from Japan''s most celebrated living writer on the meaning of the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy. Kenzaburo Oe''s account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima - the young, the old, women and children - and the valiant efforts of the doctors who care for them, both immediately after the atomic blast and in the years to come, reveals the horrific extent of the devastation wrought. In Hiroshima Notes, Oe offers a sensitive portrayal of the people of the city - the ''human face'' in the midst of atomic destruction. The lives Oe describes and his insights into the nature of human dignity are an indictment of the Nuclear Age as powerful as the ruins in the Hiroshima Peace Park.

Oe''s most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel." In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child? Bird, the protagonist, is a young man of 27 with antisocial tendencies who more than once in his life, when confronted with a critical problem, has "cast himself adrift on a sea of whisky like a besotted Robinson Crusoe." But he has never faced a crisis as personal or grave as the prospect of life imprisonment in the cage of his newborn infant-monster. Should he keep it? Dare he kill it? Before he makes his final decision, Bird''s entire past seems to rise up before him, revealing itself to be a nightmare of self-deceit. The relentless honesty with which Oe portrays his hero -- or antihero -- makes Bird one of the most unforgettable characters in recent fiction.

En pleine guerre, un avion américain s'écrase dans les montagnes japonaises. Le rescapé est aussitôt fait prisonnier par les villageois. Or il est noir. Aux yeux du jeune enfant naïf et émerveillé qui raconte cet épisode, sa nationalité, sa race, sa langue n'en font pas un étranger on un ennemi, mais une simple bête dont il faut s'occuper. Un extraordinaire récit classique, une parabole qui dénonce la folie et la bêtise humaines.

En el relato que da título al volumen, que supuso la consagración de Kenzaburo Oé, el gran autor japonés, galardonado con el Nobel, así como en «Agüi, el monstruo del cielo», vuelve sobre el tema del

Edited by one of Japan''s leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here some of Japan''s best and most representative writers chronicle and re-create the impact of this tragedy on the daily lives of peasants, city professionals, artists, children, and families. From the "crazy" iris that grows out of season to the artist who no longer paints in color, the simple details described in these superbly crafted stories testify to the enormity of change in Japanese life, as well as in the future of our civilization. Included are "The Crazy Iris" by Masuji Ibuse, "Summer Flower" by Tamiki Hara, "The Land of Heart''s Desire" by Tamiki Hara, "Human Ashes" by Katsuzo Oda, "Fireflies" by Yoka Ota, "The Colorless Paintings" by Ineko Sata, "The Empty Can" by Kyoko Hayashi, "The House of Hands" by Mitsuharu Inoue, and "The Rite" by Hiroko Takenishi.