Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

by Oe, Kenzaburo; Nathan, John

• ISBN13: 9780802117106
• ISBN10: 0802117104
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Grove Pr

Summary

K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, the oldest of whom was born with a brain anomaly that has left him mentally disabled. A highly cerebral man who often retreats from real life into abstraction - in this case, the poetry of William Blake - K is confronted by his wife with the reality that this child, Eeyore, has been saying and doing disturbing things - behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead, even brandishing a knife at his mother. As the days pass, various events - K's hapless attempts to communicate with his son, Eeyore's near drowning during a father-son trip to the swimming pool, a terrible hurricane that nearly destroys the family's mountain cottage and the family inside it - K is forced to question his fitness as a father.

Author Biography

Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935 in the remote mountain village of Ose on Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four main islands. His prolific body of work has won almost every major international honor, including the 1989 Prix Europalia and the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature

Table of Contents

Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience	p. 1
A Cold Babe Stands in the Furious Air	p. 27
Down, Down thro' the Immense, with Outcry	p. 61
The Ghost of a Flea	p. 79
The Soul Descends as a Falling Star, to the Bone at My Heel	p. 121
Let the Inchained Soul Rise and Look Out	p. 157
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!	p. 203
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