Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kenzaburō Ōe
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1982-1983
- Setting: Tokyo
- Principal Characters: Narrator, Eeyore, wife of the narrator, Sakurao, daughter of the narrator, Ki-Ko, Classmate H, Composer T, Writer M, Writer H, Dr. M, radical student, Eppendorfer
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Family or family life, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Poetry or poets, 1980’s, Fathers, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Names, Mental retardation, Japan or Japanese people, Tokyo, Learning disabilities
- Locales: Tokyo, Japan
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is a powerful addition to Kenzaburō Ōe’s substantial literary work, dealing with his relationship with his mentally disabled son Hikari, known to Ōe’s readers by his nickname of “Eeyore,” after the name of the donkey in A. A. Milne’s stories about Winnie the Pooh. Eeyore’s birth in 1963 inspired Ōe to write the novels which earned him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1994, most notably Kojinteki na taiken (1964; A Personal Matter, 1968) and Man’en gan’nen no futtoboru (1967; The Silent Cry,...
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