Kenzaburo Oe

Em 1964, o romancista japonês Kenzaburo Oe recebia a notícia de que seu primeiro filho nascera com uma anomalia cerebral. É a mesma situação enfrentada pelo protagonista de Uma questão pessoal , o professor Bird. Aos 27 anos, ele leva uma vida mediana, bebendo pelos bares de Tóquio e sonhando com aventuras no …

These four novels display Oe’s passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on …

The Changeling is a 2000 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe. It is the first book of a trilogy. It was translated into English by Deborah Boliver Boehm, and published in the United States by Grove Press. Its English publication appeared in 2010. Boehm uses American English heavily in her translation. The United Kingdom version is …