Personal Matter

Name: Personal Matter
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ISBN: 9780802150615

ISBN-10: 0802150616

ISBN-13: 9780802150615

Edition: 1969

Authors: Kenzaburo Oe, John Nathan, Kenzaburo Oï¿½

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 1969
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/13/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 214
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

John Nathan is the author of the definitive biography of the novelist Yukio Mishima & has translated the novels of both Mishima & the Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe into English. He is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker & lives in Santa Barbara, California.