The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe

The Silent Cry by 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.

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 *
Oe piles copious and inventive misery onto his hero before allowing him enlightenment and redemption-- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Telegraph *

Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in 1935, Kenzaburo Oé is the leading Japanese writer of his generation. He spent the sixties in Paris where he came under the influence of Sartre. Kenzaburo Oé is one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

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ISBN 13	9781846688072
ISBN 10	1846688078
Title	The Silent Cry
Author	Kenzaburo Oe
Series	Serpent's Tail Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2011-09-22
Number of pages	288
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