A Personal Matter
A Personal Matter
Author: Kenzaburō Ōe
Desc: Kenzaburō Ōe the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Ōe for his "poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." His most personal book A Personal Matter is the story of Bird a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child.