M. Marshall-van Wieringen Livres

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 2 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.

Empreint d'une étrange violence intérieure, Une affaire personnelle est un roman cruel et douloureux : Bird, le héros de cette bouleversante histoire, a vingt-sept ans et son épouse vient de mettre au monde un enfant anormal. Déchiré par des sentiments contradictoires, dont l'immense tentation de se débarrasser du nouveau-né, le jeune père ira-t-il jusqu'à tuer de ses mains le bébé monstrueux ? Durant trois longues journées, Bird cherchera en vain dans l'alcool et les bras d'une possible " complice " la force de mener à son terme sa fuite en avant...