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Kenzaburō Ōe
Birth date: January 31, 1935
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La vita è un libro
La vita è un libro rated it 7 years ago
E' un libro non facile da leggere, lento e profondo. Non c'è una narrazione lineare, ma avviene attraverso ricordi di dialoghi e di riflessioni passate prendendo spunto principalmente dell'ascolto di audiocassette lasciate all'amico-cognato da un famoso regista suicida. Il titolo e la copertina hann...
jwilley44
jwilley44 rated it 10 years ago
I am a little ashamed to admit that I did not want to read this book because I thought the title was so cheesy, but I am glad I got past that and read it. The theme is a little cheesy (I feel cynical calling a story about finding inner peace, cheesy), but the way it is presented is not at all cheesy...
Nicole~
Nicole~ rated it 11 years ago
You and I exist in alternate different forms in countless other universes...At each of those moments you survived in one universe and left your own corpse behind in another.- Kenzaburo Oe: A Personal MatterBird, the protagonist, is confronted by a grave problem, a problem that threatens his future f...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: fraudio, summer-2013, japan, nobel-laureate, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, translation, published-1958, plague-disease, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy, wwii, ouch, lifestyles-deathstyles, debut, next Read from August 14 to 18, 2013 gboxNarrated by Eduardo BalleriniOne wouldn't want to g...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
gboxNarrated by Eduardo BalleriniOne wouldn't want to grapple with this if on a downer, you know, the back yard filled with black dogs and storms torrenting within the four walls of one's chest; this is human misery on a stick.
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