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Title: The Pinch Runner Memorandum by Oe Kenzaburo, Michiko N. Wilson, Michael K. Wilson ISBN: 1-56324-183-8 Publisher: M. E. Sharpe Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $74.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Oe Fan
Comment: I read Pinchrunner Memorandum in the fall of 2001. It was the final book for the assigned reading for a class taught by the translator, Professor Michiko Wilson. After reading the novel I became a single goose bump as the significance sunk in. I later found out that this book was the final in a series often called the Handicapped Son, and I have read the rest of the series that has been translated. It is comparable to Mishima's tetralogy, except that it is much less trite and self-indulgent.
Oe encompasses all of humanity in Pinchrunner Memorandum by delving into the marginal world and explicating how it reveals the darker side of society led by a force seeking chaos through subliminal tyranny. Similar to Oe's parody of Mishima in One Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Oe takes the role of court jester and reveals the panting, self-destructive struggle of humanity through his use of grotesque realism as a man and his son attempt to save the world from the annihilation it so desperately seeks. They brave savage riots of students from the left and right, nuclear terrorists, and maniac capitalists. One common trait among all these people is that suicide is a foregone conclusion for victory. Those who are not willing to die condemn themselves to defeat.
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Title: Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Christopher Butler ISBN: 0192802399 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Dance, Dance, Dance: A Novel by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum , Alfred Birnbaum ISBN: 0679753796 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Kangaroo Notebook : A Novel by KOBO ABE ISBN: 0679746633 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: On Parole (Harvest Book) by Akira Yoshimura ISBN: 0156011476 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 03 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Sting of Death and Other Stories (Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies) by Toshio Shimao ISBN: 0939512181 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1985 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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