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Title: Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburo Oe, John Nathan ISBN: 0-8021-5185-X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: December, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best writers from Japan
Comment: If you haven't bought this book, then you should get it now. Kenzaburo Oe is one of the few left wing writers in Japan who has made a great impact world wide. His style is original, his themes often poignant. His own personal suffering and the suffering of his own brain-damaged child often feature in his novels in subtle and not so subtle forms. You will not find any cliches in this novel and Oe is never nauseatingly sentimental. A true gem.
Rating: 5
Summary: not about mental health
Comment: Please do not be misled by the title or Amazon's classification of this work in "Psychology and Counseling." Oe writes about madness not from the perspective of a clinician but from that of an artist. The madness he urges us to leave behind is that of societal expectations.
Although "Prize Catch" might be difficult for those who have experienced racism to read, one has to remember that Oe recaptures (pardon the pun) the atmosphere of rural Shikoku seen through the eyes of a boy in the waning days of World War II. I suspect that the villagers would have had equal difficulty relating to a Caucasian American.
This is an excellent introduction to Oe's public and private lives.
Rating: 5
Summary: madness outgrown?
Comment: this book (i must say) is one of the most original and "a-joy-to-read" works of literature i've picked up recently.
i liked the obscure nature of the stories and the eccentricity of oe's characters.
for the most part they all seem to be in some way influenced by his own experiences as a child disillusioned by the war.
the first story is perhaps my favorite.
i liked the way that the narrator insisted that he was a person not to be pitied and that his cancer was justified and perhaps even the result of his insanity he witnessed through his father.
second: 'teach us to outgrow our madness.'
i found this story to contain the most interesting relationship that i've had the pleasure of reading about.
'eeyore! the pork noodles in broth and pepsi cola were good!'
ahh.
i'll be quoting that for years.
it wasn't only an awkward relationship that the father and son shared but rather an affirmation of the amount of absurdity inherent with any interpersonal relationship.
all in all i'd say that this is definitely one of my favorite books.
i'll probably give it another read some day.
yup.
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Title: A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë, John Nathan ISBN: 0802150616 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Silent Cry: A Novel by Kenzaburo Oe, John Bester, S. Shaw ISBN: 4770019653 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe, David L. Swain, Toshi Yonezawa ISBN: 0802134645 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Seventeen and J: Two Novels by Kenzaburo Oe, Masao Miyoshi, Luk Van Haute ISBN: 1562010913 Publisher: Foxrock Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Bend in the River by V.S. NAIPAUL ISBN: 0679722025 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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