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Title: Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! by Kenzaburo Oe, John Nathan ISBN: 0-8021-3968-X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: As much about poetic imagination as postwar Japan
Comment: torn between a redemptive vision of culture and a globalizing hegemony of the right, this is a splendid and pithy novel that unlocks the sublime visionary power of William Blake (as revolutionary figure) to do global work inside post-imperial Japan and the US/Anglo hegemony. The son is caught between Blake the father and Los the son, and figures a way forward for all: Mutual Forgiveness is the Path to Eternity, said Blake to real politik. I love this novel, it taught me more about Blake and poetry than most poems I read, odd for a Japanese novelist to be tutoring this way!
Rating: 3
Summary: Over My Head
Comment: This book has a lot of references to the works by William Blake, which makes it a difficult read. Additionally, Oe explains the writings of Blake and combines it with how it teaches him to understand his handicapped child. I felt like the novel was more autobiographical than fiction. Too deep for me at this point in my reading skill level. A good message though all throughout the novel.
Rating: 5
Summary: floating
Comment: As usual Mr. Oe's prose is sharp as a knife. As usual there is an odd humility (here in relation to the writings of William Blake). As usual we find ourselves thinking we are listening to the humble mumblings about some guy with a disabled child only to wake up somewhere quite different than we thought we were. As usual we read something entirely personal in its politic ...
What left me reeling was the way this novel floats between the fact of Mr. Oe's life and the fiction that the novel is.
Hmm.
Read it.
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Title: God's Fool by Mark Slouka ISBN: 0375702091 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe, Philip Gabriel, J. Philip Gabriel ISBN: 0802117384 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Silent Cry: A Novel by Kenzaburo Oe, John Bester, S. Shaw ISBN: 4770019653 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: By the Lake by John McGahern ISBN: 0679744029 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande ISBN: 0312421702 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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