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憂い顔の童子 [Ureigao no dōji]

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小説家、「ドン・キホーテ」と森へ帰る。
滑稽かつ悲惨な老年の冒険をつうじて、死んだ母親と去った友人の「真実」に辿りつくまで。

魂に真の和解はあるのか?
書下ろし長篇小説

「森に入って、ある1本の木を選んで、ちょうどいまの年齢の、老年の私が待っている。その私に、子供の私が会いに来るんだ。
しかし老人はね、少年に対して、きみが夢みるほど高い達成はない、この自分が、つまりきみの50年後なんだから、とはいわない。それが「自分の木」のルールだから……」

532 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2002

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Kenzaburō Ōe

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Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎) was a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engages with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism.

Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."

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