Name: Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
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Author: Oe, Kenzaburo ; Nathan, John
ISBN: 9780802139689

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Kenzaburo Oe

Translated by

John Nathan

Publisher

Grove Press

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.31 kg.

ISBN

080213968X

ISBN13

9780802139689

Synopsis "Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! "

Wise and illuminating, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts him with the information that this child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing things -- behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead, even brandishing a knife at his mother -- and K, given to retreating from reality into abstraction, looks for answers in his lifelong love of William Blake's poetry. As K struggles to understand his family and assess his responsibilities within it, he must also reevaluate himself -- his relationship with his own father, the political stances he has taken, the duty of artists and writers in society. A remarkable portrait of the inexpressible bond between this father and his damaged son, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is the work of an unparalleled writer at his sparkling best.

Kenzaburo Oe

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Kenzaburo Oe (Ōse, Shikoku, 1935 - 2023) was an influential Japanese writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994. He moved to Tokyo in 1954 to study French Literature at the University of Tokyo, where he was influenced by Sartre and existentialist philosophy. His extensive work, marked by existential anguish, post-Hiroshima Japanese identity, and the experience with his son Hikari's disability, merges grotesque realism with profound humanism. Ōe was a fierce critic of Japanese militarism and an advocate for pacifist values. His literature, often dark but always hopeful, explores human fragility and resilience in the face of the absurd.

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