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Title	:	A Personal Matter
Author	:	Kenzaburō Ōe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 165 pages
Published	:	January 13th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1964)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Literature

A Personal Matter

Kenzaburō Ōe

Paperback | Pages: 165 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 9168 Users | 786 Reviews

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Kenzaburō Ōe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Ōe for his "poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."

His most personal book, A Personal Matter, is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child.

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Original Title:	個人的な体験 [Kojinteki na Taiken]
ISBN:	0802150616 (ISBN13: 9780802150615)
Edition Language:	English

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I got Kenzaburō Ōe's 'A Personal Matter' as a gift from one of my favourite friends a long time back. It looked a bit dark and so I thought I'll wait for the right time to read it. It looked like the right time arrived a few days back :) Bird works as a teacher in a cram-school. This is a kind of training institute where students are coached for entrance exams to university or taught English to improve their communication skills. Bird's wife has given birth to a baby recently and both she and

Amazingly tight existentialist story about moral choices. Really my only complaint has to do with the last 3-4 pages, and it's hard to talk about those pages in any specific detail without giving away the book's ending. I was totally on board up to and including the moment in which Bird makes his choice, but I could have lived without the "flash forward" scene that came next, and revealed the repercussions of that choice. The choice itself seemed to be the thing that was important, a choice made

This is the kind of book you would like it to be (if you are a humanitarian) a bestseller. Raw, truthful, crafted, deep, beautiful and, if not life-changing, at least it will make an impact in your heart.P.S.The ending might seem predictable, yet it is something deeply rooted in Japanese culture (to take responsibility for your actions and embrace what life brings to you) and more natural than premeditated if the novel is read vividly.

Imagine your child was born with his brain outside of his head. How would you feel? What would you think? Would a very small part of you think, maybe it would be better for everyone if he didn't survive? What if part of you couldn't stop thinking, if he survives, my life will become much less fun? What if part of you thought, I didn't even completely want a kid in the first place, much less this disaster? What if part of you was like, this is going to screw up my vacation plans? I don't know

People love this damn book but I wanted to climb inside the pages and tip our hero into a cement mixer so he could become part of the foundations of the new Tokyo and therefore perform the only useful act in his miserable life. I mean, fucking hell, get a grip.

Not a pretty story. The main character is a man who has just learned that his wife gave birth to a boy with a deformed head and brain damage. His primary feelings about the baby are shame and disgust. He thinks of the baby as the monstrosity and the vegetable baby.It seems impossible today, in western culture at least, to see how much in male-dominated Japan the mother of the child was left in ignorance of all that was happening. Its disturbing to see how her husband, her own mother, and the

Kinda hated this but it was also really good