Note su Hiroshima

In 1963, Kenzaburō Ōe, then aged 28, was already developing a reputation as a novelist and a spokesperson for the younger generation. June 1963 marked the birth of Ōe's son Hikari, born with a severe brain lesion, who was to be so important to much of the rest of Ōe subsequent writing. Shortly after t Leggi tutto

I can't see why this was translated; it seems entirely for a Japanese audience. It opens in 1965 with the Japanese Communist Party (Beijing's stooges) and the Japanese Socialist Party (Moscow's) finding it increasingly difficult to work together ... ostensibly they both want to secure "world peace"

Kenzaburō Ōe delivers a very thought-provoking book in Hiroshima Notes. Seven individual "notes"/chapters are compiled to offer the reader a look at life in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing that brought an end to World War II. Ōe wrote these notes after many visits to Hiroshima in the 60s. He Leggi tutto

Sin duda este libro no es un libro amable, simpático o sencillo. Es una historia cruda, llena de dolor y que por desgracia es real. Es un libro atemporal, que trata temas perennes, que nos ayuda a comprender de qué es capaz el ser humano, para bien y para mal, cómo saca fuerzas de flaqueza para cont Leggi tutto

Readers who are critical of this book seem to be disappointed by the fact that it is not a systematic account of the impact of the A-bomb on the lives of the inhabitants of Hiroshima. Indeed, Oe’s book is a collection of essays prepared at different times and with different ambitions. Some are more Leggi tutto

Hiroshima; todos sabemos de su historia, pero creo que sabemos muy poco. Un libro que acerca a ese terrible hecho sufrido por los japoneses, donde todo es trágico, tremendo, horroroso, de una crueldad inconmensurable, de personas hacia personas en pleno siglo XX. Y así y todo, entre sus habitantes s Leggi tutto