同時代ゲーム

by Kenzaburō Ōe

海に向って追放された武士の集団が、川を遡って、四国の山奥に《村=国=家=小宇宙》を創建し、長い〈自由時代〉のあと、大日本帝国と全面戦争に突入した!?　壊す人、アポ爺、ペリ爺、オシコメ、シリメ、「木から降りん人」等々、奇体な人物を操り出しながら、父=神主の息子〈僕〉が双生児の妹に向けて語る、一族の神話と歴史。得意な作家的想像力が構築した、現代文学の収穫1000枚。（新潮文庫）

523 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

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."

Reviews

[Hibiscus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much told in too many words too obscurely.
A true maze of symbolism and historical nuances.
So you may go hard and finish the book but never escape the forest of the village-microcosm.

Cryptic. Bitter. Even worse. Uninteresting.

[Konstantin Shalnov · Rating 4 out of 5]

Indeed rather unusual read. Epic multilayered book about small village-microcosm.