A Personal Matter
内容简介
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.
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作者简介
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎), is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engage with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism.
Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."
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读书文摘
这是鸟第一次买实用非洲地图。可是，我实实在在地踏上非洲大地，戴着深色太阳镜仰望非洲天空的那一天真的会到来吗？鸟惶惑不安地想。或许现在这一瞬间，我向非洲出发的可能正在决定性地丧失，也就是说，我现在正无可奈何地与自己青春时代唯一的最后一个充满激动和紧张的机会告别。倘若果真如此，那也……但这已经是不可避免的了。
如果真有所谓末日的审判，那出生不久就猝然而死的植物婴儿，能作为怎样的死者被传讯、检诉和判决呢？他张开珍珠般光泽的口腔，蠕动着舌头，哭泣着在世间停留了几个小时，无论对怎样的审判官来说，都不足以成为审判的证据吧？完全是证据不足。
和步行相比，骑自行车多多少少有一点儿从自身肉体逃离的感觉……
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