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Una cuestión personal
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Una cuestión personal
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Una cuestión personal

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Revelación literaria en los años cincuenta, Kenzaburo Oé quedó consagrado como el mejor novelista japonés de la generación posterior a Yukio Mishima desde los años sesenta y se ha afirmado que recuerda a Dante, William Blake y Malcom Lowry.

Una cuestión personal, una de sus mejores y más crueles novelas, animada de una extraña violencia interior, cuenta la terrible odisea de Bird, un joven profesor de inglés abrumado por una cenagosa existencia cotidiana en el Japón contemporáneo. Su anhelo secreto es redimirse a través de un mítico viaje por África, donde, según cree, su vida renacerá plena de sentido. Pero tales proyectos sufren un vuelco de ciento ochenta grados: su esposa da a luz un monstruoso bebé, condenado a una muerte inminente o, en el mejor de los casos, a una vida de vegetal.

Este hecho convulsiona el lánguido e indolente existir de Bird y, durante tres días y tres noches, se arrastra por un implacable recorrido hacia lo más profundo de su abismo interior. Descenso a los infiernos en el que le acompañará Himiko, una vieja compañera de estudios. Bird buscará refugio en el alcohol, en los brazos de Himiko y, principalmente, en su propia vergüenza y humillación: ¿debe aceptar la fatalidad, cargar para siempre con un hijo anormal y renunciar a sus planes de una vida mejor o, por el contrario, debe desembarazarse del bebé provocando un desenlace fatal?

IdiomaEspañol
Fecha de lanzamiento1 feb 1999
ISBN9788433938886
Una cuestión personal
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Kenzaburo Oé

Kenzaburo Oé (Ose, 1935 - Tokio, 2023) fue el símbolo y el portavoz de su generación y uno de los grandes escritores japoneses de nuestro tiempo. Obtuvo los galardones literarios más importantes de su país, ratificados en 1989 por el Europalia de la Comunidad Europea y en 1994 por el Premio Nobel de Literatura. En 2007, obtuvo la máxima condecoración francesa, la Legión de Honor.

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  • Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas
    2/5
    This was the weirdest book! It took me the longest time to read it, but now I am thankfully done. The story was about a man with a failing marriage, dreams of visiting Africa, and a wife who gave birth to a son with a birth defect called "brain hernia." You could say this story was about the negative reaction of the new dad to his newborn child. I didn't like this book for several reasons although there was no fault in the writing itself. I hated the idea of a baby being malformed or maltreated. I hated the protagonist going outside of his own family to deal with his emotional issues. I disliked the fact that the mother of the child was an afterthought, and we never heard much about her in this story. I'm so glad I will never have to meet Bird, the new dad, in real life. The ending totally surprised me. It didn't seem to fit with the story although the author tried hard to make it fit. What a dark piece of writing! I have read another work which I liked much more by this same author so I will give him another chance in the future.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    Bird, a young man awaiting the birth of his first child in a profoundly self absorbed state and when told the child has a fatal disfiguring defect seeks solace in whiskey and the company of a former lover. Full of unpleasantness and ending abruptly in a few implausible paragraphs, this is so not my sort of book. Can I shower now?
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    De lectuur is erg bevreemdend: rauwrealisme in een moderne filmische stijl. Doet erg sartriaans aan, maar zonder metafysische verwijzingen. Zwakk happy end.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    Dark until the final pages.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    A raw and powerful book about the brutality of life, human dreams, and dignity.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    This is an incredibly honest, brutal account of a young man's transformation from immature boy to responsible man, centred around the birth of his first child. The child is born with a brain injury, and this sends the main character Bird into a desperate flight from his responsibilities as a father. The language is as poised as Hemingway's or Vonnegut's. The book is a departure from the Japanese style of fiction developed by writers such as Mishima, Soseki and Tanizaki, and seems to pave the way for writers like Haruki and Ryu Murakami. There is definitely a more Western feel to the style. I loved it. It's a difficult subject, but Oe faces it head on, uses humour, and makes the characters seem fully human.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    Dark, unsparing examination of what goes on in the mind and heart of a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose escapist dreams are shattered when his wife gives birth to a braindamaged child. What he thinks and does in reaction to this is as monstrous as his own verdict on the baby, yet also uncomfortably and universally human.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    I knew from early on this was a great book, but I also hated it, right up to the end. Then it redeemed itself. It a great story about a horrendous, damaged people, in a cold and severe culture, dealing with deep pain and helplessness. The only bits of lightheartedness were Oe's over-the-top poetic treatments of the most disgusting and awful things-- like vomiting, certain sex acts, and deformed babies-- so dark humor to be sure. Oe's writing really does draw the reader into the distastefulness of the situation and the characters though. You feel dirty and immoral in Himiko's cave. You want to smack the doctors across the face. And you feel nothing for the mother or baby, who ought to be sympathetic characters. The book made me want to take a shower. Although I can't say I enjoyed reading this book I have to admire writing that powerful. All the more so since Oe himself is the father of a disabled son. I agree with the other reviewers who comment that the ending seems contrived and unbelievable, but I'm okay with that. I'm glad that corner was turned. I don't know who to recommend this book to. It's a great novel, but painful to read. I imagine those who can handle it know who they are. 4 stars.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    Der junge Japaner Bird wird Vater eines Babys mit einer schweren Behinderung. Seine Frau wei? nichts davon und nimmt an, Bird sei mit dem Baby aufgrund einer organischen Krankheit in einer Spezialklinik. Bird selber m?chte das Kind sterben lassen- zu sehr f?rchtet er sich vor den Konsequenzen f?r sein eigenes Leben. Er sucht eine alte Freundin auf, hat Sex, trinkt, verliert seinen Job- alles nur, damit er sich seiner Verantwortung nicht stellt. Bird ist wirklich kein Sympathietr?ger!Zum Gl?ck war Oe selbst bei seinem behinderten Kind weniger zaudernd: ?H?tte ich mein Leben eins zu eins auf diesen Roman projiziert, w?re er nur drei Zeilen lang geworden. Ich habe mich wirklich in diesem einen Moment entschieden. Und wenn ich meinen Sohn heute Nacht auf die Toilette f?hre, werde ich damit zufrieden sein und mich an diesen Moment erinnern. Erst als ich dieses Buch schrieb, ist mir der Gedanke gekommen, dass man auch Bedenken haben kann?, so antwortet er bei einem Interview im Zeitmagazin.Das Buch liest sich interessant, ich fand Birds Verhalten in seiner Verwirrtheit nachvollziehbar, aber insgesamt abschreckend. Vor allem fand ich es furchtbar, dass die Mutter des Kindes nicht einbezogen wird. Diese Beziehung scheint nicht auf Augenh?he zu sein!Gelesen hatte ich das Buch, weil ich zuvor von Mo Yang "Fr?sche" gelesen habe (ebenfalls ein Nobelpreistr?ger). Darin wird auf dieses Buch, bzw. auf Oes behinderten Sohn, Bezug genommen.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    De lectuur is erg bevreemdend: rauwrealisme in een moderne filmische stijl. Doet erg sartriaans aan, maar zonder metafysische verwijzingen. Zwakk happy end.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    I can understand literary critics responding in glowing terms about this novel for Oe adopts a style that is ground breaking to the Japanese literary tradition, choosing a modern (for when it was written) American noir style typified by gritty art films of the 60s. But ground breaking style points are not enough to overcome so much of what is bad in this novel.Bird is aptly named since he is immature and as self-centered as a two year-old, completely wrapped up in his emotional response to his newborn son's birth defect to the point of accepting the suggestion by his mistress that they take the baby to an abortionist who will murder it for them. At this point, having put up with his extremely unbelievable indecision and ambivalence, the theme of bleak nuclear age alienation and ennui-- themes so popular in American literature of the 50s and most appropriately explored in science fiction and bildungsroman novels of the time -- abruptly becomes one of anti-abortionism.However, the prominent theme of the novel is fear. In a completely unearned epiphany, Bird finds the "courage" to face his life as the father of a child who may be permanently disabled and abruptly becomes decisive. He's in a gay bar and is confronted by a friend he'd drifted away from when they were teen-agers. The friend recounts the night when he and Bird separated and their lives went in different directions. The scene echoes the motifs we've encountered throughout the novel: gross deformity, running away, madness, and fear. Unfortunately, those motifs carry greater weight in the incident from their youth than they do in Bird's present. Yes, we see gross deformity in his infant son; Bird seeks multiple diversions to escape facing that reality; he thinks the "pressure" of his infant's newborn strength and vitality in spite of his defect will drive him mad; and he's afraid that his son's continued existence will deprive him of his fantasized future. Abruptly, this happens. . ."-- Bird gulped down his first whiskey of what had been a long day. Seconds later, something substantial and giant stirred sluggishly inside him. The whiskey he had just poured into his stomach, Bird effortlessly puked."Right then and there Bird has his "ah-ha!" moment. All through the novel, it should be said, the man has been drinking whiskey and throwing up. Why is this puke different from all the others? No reason.Bird had been asking himself all the same questions that he gets from his friend in the bar; earlier, he's been asked them by another gay person, his mistress' old high school friend; even earlier, his wife has confronted him about the self same issues.The novel then leaps into a near future, where Bird, reunited with his family, is seen as a changed man and believes himself to be one. He eschews everything that caused him great anxiety, is clear-headed, speaks sensibly, seems totally in charge. It's as if all the sturm und drang never happened. If Oe wants me to believe all this story was so much of A Personal Matter that it never really happened, like a dream or a fairy tale, well then, he succeeded.This reader felt cheated. I put the book down dismayed at the facile and contrived story telling that seemed after reading from beginning to end the effort of an overwrought and marginally talented creative writing program student. Should anyone read this review, knowing the book is the iconic work of this Nobel Prize winning author, they'll think I'm wrong. That's their right. Yet, I feel that I may be the lone reader whose eyes Oe was not able to pull the wool over. Guess that's my right.
  • Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas
    2/5
    Not for the weak of heart. A sad story, and the ending seems a bit contrived after all the stress and sadness of the book.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    Verdaderamente es lo que yo necesitaba leer en estos momentos
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    El autor logra capturar el universo sombrío y perturbador del protagonista. Un viaje alucinante en el que está en juego su alma.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    A deeply personal journey with an utterly uncertain trajectory.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    This book came to my attention when Jonathan Franzen recommended it to the Wall Street Journal book club as a short gem of Japanese attitude and writing. The author is well-known, respected, and prize winning but was unfamiliar to me before that. Even tho translations inevitably lose some of the flavor of the language in which written, I still appreciated the author's turn of phrase and descriptive powers. I expect to check into the WSJ book club commentary to get even more perspective. Worth the read.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    I have never cringed so much while reading a book. And I don't mean cheap cringes like you'd get from reading about an awkward adolescence, I mean serious, serious shrinking of the soul, some of it sympathetic and some not. What a horrific setup for a hugely cathartic ending. Nothing can match Bird's surreal and overblown fear of the "monstrous" infant or his self-loathing, so the ending is marked not by happiness and resolution but by a return to normalcy. Of sorts.

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