The Silent Cry
Author(s): Kenzaburo Oe
Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. Selling their family home leads them to an inescapable confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything in the countryside, including their own relationship. In 1994, Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Singling out The Silent Cry, the Nobel Committee stated that 'his poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament'. Kenzaburo Oe is one of the great writers of the century and The Silent Cry is his masterpiece.
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Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature.
'Somehow - and this is what gives his art such unquestionable stature - Oe manages to smuggle a comic thread in all this tragedy' (Independent)
'Though thoroughly Japanese, Oe, in the range of hope and despair he covers, seems to me to have in him a touch of Dostoevsky' (Henry Miller)
'A new pinnacle in postwar Japanese fiction' (Yukio Mishima)
Born in 1935, Kenzaburo Oe is the leading Japanese writer of his generation. He spent the sixties in Paris where he came under the influence of Sartre. Kenzaburo Oe is one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
General Fields
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- : Serpent's Tail Limited
- : Serpent's Tail
- : 01 January 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kenzaburo Oe
- : Paperback
- : 2
- : en
- : 895.635
- : 288