The Silent Cry: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (789 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 4770019653 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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An awesome landmark of a novel : a masterpiece Kenzaburo Oe's "The Silent Cry" is a masterpiece. No two ways about it. It's a dark, complex, and difficult piece of work and not easy to digest unless you have a modicum of knowledge of Japanese socio-economic history. The spirit of revival of the feudal uprising of 1860 is the central motif that renders the dialectical relationship and the unspeakable horror visited upon the two Nedokoro brothers, Mitsu and Takashi, ultimately comprehensible. While radical younger brother Takashi needs t. Ian Muldoon said Weird and wonderful surreal tragi-comedy. It has been said by some that to know a country is to read its novels; far better than to read its (manufactured) history. Novels too are manufactured but novels are more likely to expose the emotional and spiritual "truth" of the country concerned. In THE SILENT CRY the writer OE covers much historical, emotional, social, Japanese ground but does it in such a way as to make it a wonderfully entertaining journey for the reader. I for one would love to read a Freudian criticism of it. For e. "Football in the Year 1860" according to D. Cloyce Smith. The American edition of Oe's novel may be called "The Silent Cry," but a more accurate translation of the title would be "Football in the Year 1860 [or the Man'an era]," the year Ii Naosuke, famous for brokering a commercial treaty with the U.S., was assassinated by a group of samurai loyal to the Emperor. It is also the year, in the novel, when the great-granduncle of two brothers, Mitsusaburo and Takashi, led a peasant revolt in their ancestral village.The decision to discard a more lite
In 1990 he received the first Noma Translation Award for his English version of a short-story collection by Yukio Mishima entitled Acts of Worship.. KENZABURO OE was born in 1935 in a village in Shikoku, an island off the southwest coast of mainland Japan. The translator, JOHN BESTER, is one of the foremost translators of Japanese fiction. These and other w
Oe's description of this brother's messianic struggle to save a disintegrating local culture and economy from the depredations of a Korean wheeler-dealer called "The Emperor of the Supermarkets" is as chillingly pertinent today as it was when first published in 1967. The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan. Powerful and daring, The Silent Cry is a thoroughly compelling classic of world literature.. While one brother tries to sort out the after-effects of a friend's suicide and the birth of a retarded son, the other embarks on a quixotic mission to incite an uprising among the local youth
"A formidable scholar and intellectual whose novels express the moral soul-searching of postwar Japan." -- The Boston Globe"A major feat of the imagination." -- The Times"Oe seems to me to have in him a touch of Dostoevsky." -- Henry Miller