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In the august of 1963, Oé headed to Hiroshima to cover the ninth world conference against nuclear arms. He was immediately drawn to the testimonies of those forgotten souls of August 6th 1945. The very old condemned to loneliness, disfigured women, and doctors that...

A literary revelation in the fifties, Kenzaburo Oé was considered the best Japanese novelist of the generation after Yukio Mishima. A Personal Matter is one of his best and most cruel novels, animated by a strange interior violence. It tells of the odyssey of...