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Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
Kenzaburo Oe
ISBN 13: 9780802139689
Publisher: Grove Pr
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover
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Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is a virtuoso novel hailed as "a dark jewel" (The Village Voice) and "a dazzlingly unconventional fiction ... capable of frequently reducing the reader to helpless (albeit grateful) tears" (Kirkus Reviews). Wise and illuminating, it is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts him with the information that this child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing things -- behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead, even brandishing a knife at his mother -- and K, given to retreating from reality into abstraction, looks for answers in his lifelong love of William Blake's poetry. As K struggles to understand his family and assess his responsibilities within it, he must also reevaluate himself -- his relationship with his own father, the political stances he has taken, the duty of artists and writers in society. A remarkable portrait of the inexpressible bond between this father and his damaged son, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is the work of an unparalleled writer at his sparkling best. "An intimate investigation of love, responsibility, and the nature of inspiration, from one of world literature's most original voices." -- Fionn Meade, The Seattle Times "Notable for [its] piercing emotional honesty ... A hopeful book." -- John Freeman, The Dallas Morning News "Oe's voice resounds in every sentence, making for rewarding-if melancholy-reading." -- Andrew Ervin, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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"Perhaps the best of [Oe's] several fictionalizations of life with his brain-damaged son Hikari...Oe has been afflicted, and blessed, with a great theme that's entirely his own--and has made it the cornerstone of an irresistibly compelling body of work."
Kirkus, 02/01/2002
Review:"This elegant work is a mordantly entertaining reflection on the uses of literature and imagination...."
New Yorker, 05/22/2002
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