 A Personal Matter
(Kojinteki na taiken)
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I love his work because my life can relate to the difficulties of facing the reality of having a love one in disability or pain. The stages of fierce denial and rage until the acceptance of the pluralistic world bites into the heart. Every event and every emotion is true and painful. After reading his work it has changed my life, with humble judgement of accepting and moving on into my life. No matter how difficult it is.
/Archiebald, 28, Philippines
The book is about a japanese
middle-class man who's becoming father. But his child's handicapped,
its brain is too big for its head, if it survives it'll have
a "vegetable existence". The man crashes in a deep crisis, leaves
the unknowing mother alone in the hospital, visits an old girlfriend,
falls in to alcohol and despare (the baby isn't human for him,
so he doesn't name it "he", his child is always the neutral "it").
Totally plunged down, desperate and broken he tries to think
about his baby, wants to kill it, thinks about his/its future,
loses all his self-confidence. Neglected and demoralized, he's
at the dark mercy of the unconscious waves of his sticking out,
unfiltered emotions. But in the decisive very last moment, he
acts in the only right way, meets his responsibility. [I've read
it also when didn't prefer the topic before, and was inspired,
because it's a book about living and surviving in a modern cruel
world.] A great book about a difficult sensitive topic, worth
every word, with many inter and intra textuell references; a
praise of humanity in the extremes and limits of beeing human.
/Thomas, 19, Germany |
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