Lägg till bokmärkeSeventeen and J: Two Novels
Here are two novels by Japan's Nobel Prize-winning author. In Seventeen, a lost young man, raised in a country which falsifies its own history, is in the throes of becoming a right-wing activist and assassin. In J, an increasingly isolated and psychotic youth takes up chikan, a game that involves sexually assaulting women on the crowded Tokyo trains.
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I didn't care as much for J, but Seventeen was Oe at his best. It's no surprise that this stinging satire of the right proved incendiary. It made me chuckle!
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Very Japanese, which goes without saying. I loved them both, maybe the latter a bit more. Fascinating depictions of people deliberating marginalizing themselves for different reasons.
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2nd Part of Seventeen
I heard there is 2nd part of the long time released Seventeen. Does anyone know where I can get a copy ?? (I heard it's BANNED in JPN though)
Philip Shek about 1 year ago
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