The Silent Cry
The Silent Cry
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Summary
Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling of their family home leads them to a confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything in the countryside, including their relationship.
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The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling of their family home leads them to an inescapable confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything in the countryside, including their own relationship. In 1994, Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Signalling out The Silent Cry, the Nobel Committee stated that ?his poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament.? Kenzaburo Oe is one of the great writers of the century and The Silent Cry is his masterpiece.
Somehow - and this is what gives his art such unquestionable stature - Oe manages to smuggle a comic thread in all this tragedy * Independent *
Though thoroughly Japanese, Oe, in the range of hope and despair he covers, seems to me to have in him a touch of Dostoevsky * Henry Miller *
A new pinnacle in postwar Japanese fiction * Yukio Mishima *
Though thoroughly Japanese, Oe, in the range of hope and despair he covers, seems to me to have in him a touch of Dostoevsky * Henry Miller *
A new pinnacle in postwar Japanese fiction * Yukio Mishima *
Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in 1935, Kenzaburo Oé is the leading Japanese writer of his generation. He spent the 1960s in Paris where he came under the influence of Sartre. The Nobel Committee stated that 'his poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament'. Kenzaburo Oé is one of the great writers of the 20th century.
| SKU | GOR001461309 |
| ISBN 13 | 9781852426026 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852426020 |
| Title | The Silent Cry |
| Author | Kenzaburo Oe |
| Condition | Very Good |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1998-05-28 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us |
