| Description |
ix, 214 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Tuttle classics
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| Note |
"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." |
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Translation of: Kojinteki na taiken. |
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"First Tuttle edition, 1969"--T.p. verso. |
| Subject |
Japan -- Fiction.
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Infanticide -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
4805306416 (pbk.) |
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9784805306413 (pbk.) |
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