by Kenzaburo Oé · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432228193
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
In a valley on the island of Shikoku, fugitives from the castle city founded an independent society, surrounded by a mysterious forest. A chief known as the 'destroyer,' the girls from the island of the 'pirates,' elders who doubt between dream and reality, and a child with a scar on his head, are some of the characters who inhabit this place. Kenzaburo Oé, with his unique narrative style, tells us the legends of his native village, reflecting on rebellion, self-sufficient societies, and regional mythologies. Through anecdotes from his childhood, Oé offers his son Hikari a magical link to his origins.
Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".
