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| Original Title: | 万延元年のフットボール (Man'en Gannen no Futtobōru) |
| ISBN: | 1852426020 (ISBN13: 9781852426026) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Mitsusaburo Nedokoro, Takashi Nedokoro |
| Setting: | Japan |
| Literary Awards: | Tanizaki Prize 谷崎潤一郎賞 (1967) |
Kenzaburō Ōe
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.86 | 2687 Users | 224 Reviews
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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.
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| Title | : | The Silent Cry |
| Author | : | Kenzaburō Ōe |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | 1998 by Kodansha (first published 1967) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 2687 Users | 224 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books The Silent Cry
It made me think of Eraserhead. There's a deformed baby and an anxious father and a catastrophic landscape filled with grotesques. Other points of reference might be Juan Rulfo's "Pedro Paramo" and Bruno Schulz's "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass," or a sadly underappreciated Thai film called "Wonderful Town." The comparison of a Japanese novel to American, Mexican, Polish, and Thai works of art suggests a remarkably international common thread. There's all the same sense of***Ive tried to eliminate the spoilers; but be WARNED -- somewhat spoilery***Early in the novel, the main character, Mitsu, finds himself in the pit where his septic tank will soon go. He goes into the pit to think. The position is symbolic, as everything is in this novel -- a graphic depiction of his psychological state and our place in the novel. The world has become a septic tank and Mitsu is looking for a way out of the pit. Set in the early to mid-1960s, in a small town in Japan, the novel
This book reminds me of why I hate baseball. The action doesn't start until the batter steps up to the plate, but before that there's a lot of waiting. First he has to take some practice swings. Then adjust his cup. Then maybe spit. Only then...no wait, one more cup adjustment. The first 3/4 of this book was a bit of a slog to get through. I kept waiting for Oe to get to the plate, but then I got to the last two chapters and it's like he hit a stand-up triple. Everything suddenly made sense: One
The Silent Cry [1967/1988] ★★★★★In The Silent Cry, we are presented with the early 1960s and Mitsu, a disillusioned husband to an alcoholic wife and a father to a child who is now in an institution. Mitsu sees his life changing when his estranged brother Takashi arrives from America and together they travel to their native village in Shikoku, one of the main islands in Japan. There, they find that there is a shift in local power and one rich Korean magnate is proposing to buy what remains of
Dark book. Told through comparisons to a Japanese uprising 100 years prior, the characters struggle to find meaning and make their way forward in a small village. The influence of existentialism and especially Sartre on the telling of the story is very apparent. Using the theme of connecting to similar people in the past, the search for a life that is worthwhile eludes the characters as much as it eludes us.
I plucked this from the library shelf in my quest to read more serious Japanese authors, and more Nobel Prize winners (Al Gore excepted). (Literature Nobels.) Ōe was not really a household name, in my household. He merged Japanesely with other writers like Yukio Mishima, Natsume Sōseki, and Shūsaku Endō, whose names I would sometimes spot on the shelves at the local used book shop, and mostly ignore.The Silent Cry (1967) feels like serious writing, Nobel writing, dense with meaning, although at
a great novel held back by a weak translation and (in my edition) a weirdly small font. still, this novel felt like the purest expression of oe's grotesque realism: fatalistic, ambiguous. it bleeds existential pain
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