Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
Oe Kenzaburo
"K is a famous writer
living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, the oldest of whom was
born with a brain anomaly that has left him mentally disabled. A highly
cerebral man who often retreats from real life into abstraction - in
this case, the poetry of William Blake - K is confronted by his wife
with the reality that this child, Eeyore, has been saying and doing
disturbing things - behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead,
even brandishing a knife at his mother. As the days pass, various events
- K's hapless attempts to communicate with his son, Eeyore's near
drowning during a father-son trip to the swimming pool, a terrible
hurricane that nearly destroys the family's mountain cottage and the
family inside it - K is forced to question his fitness as a father." K
reconsiders his own life - his relationship with his father, his rural
upbringing, his relationship with a well-known dissident writer who
committed suicide, the responsibilities of artists and writers in Japan
generally. In the end, in part through his obsessive rereading of Blake,
K is able to see that things are not always what they seem, especially
where his son is concerned, and to trust his heart as well as his mind.
living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, the oldest of whom was
born with a brain anomaly that has left him mentally disabled. A highly
cerebral man who often retreats from real life into abstraction - in
this case, the poetry of William Blake - K is confronted by his wife
with the reality that this child, Eeyore, has been saying and doing
disturbing things - behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead,
even brandishing a knife at his mother. As the days pass, various events
- K's hapless attempts to communicate with his son, Eeyore's near
drowning during a father-son trip to the swimming pool, a terrible
hurricane that nearly destroys the family's mountain cottage and the
family inside it - K is forced to question his fitness as a father." K
reconsiders his own life - his relationship with his father, his rural
upbringing, his relationship with a well-known dissident writer who
committed suicide, the responsibilities of artists and writers in Japan
generally. In the end, in part through his obsessive rereading of Blake,
K is able to see that things are not always what they seem, especially
where his son is concerned, and to trust his heart as well as his mind.
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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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english
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