Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Aghwee the Sky Monster
About this title: These four novels display Oe's passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other. The earliest of his novels included here, Prize Stock, reveals the strange relationship between a Japanese boy and a captured black American pilot in a Japanese village. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness tells of the close relationship between an outlandishly fat father ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994-10-13
ISBN-13:9780802151858ISBN:080215185X
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Edition: First Printing of First Edition Stated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780802151858ISBN:080215185X
Description: Evelyn Kim Cover. As New. 5 1/2" x 8" 261 pages. This is probably a 1994 reprint. as the the number 1194 appears beneath the publishers name and address on the bottom of the back cover. Contents: Introduction, The He Himself Shall Wiipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness and Aghwee The Sky Monster. He is internationally acknowledged as one of the most important influential post-World War 2 writers. These four novels display his passionate and original vision. Oe was ten ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802151858ISBN:080215185X
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Near-perfect condition; from a private collection. read more
Edition: Reprint. Recent printing of 1977 book
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780802151858ISBN:080215185X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Nearly new, clean, tight, unmarked text, appears unread. Covers with slightest of shelf wear. Uncreased spine. Very nice copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine New in Fine jacket. SOFT COVER, Fine/Fine, Grove Press, 1994, 0.81 in. H x 8.27 in. L x 5.5 in. W, 11.8 oz. This copy has no signs of use, is in Excellent Condition Overall. Note: expect tanning of any paperback more than a few years old, regardless of condition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press, 1994
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802151858ISBN:080215185X
Description: 080215185X Soft Cover. Fine Reissue. Trade Edition. Apparent reissue of this book, first printed in 1977, still carries 1977 issue info on copyright page. Nobel Prize sticker on front cover. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Pr
Date Published: 1977-12-01
ISBN-13:9780802151858ISBN:080215185X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802151858ISBN:080215185X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994-10-13
ISBN-13:9780802151858ISBN:080215185X
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"Four short novels that have many elements in common: the past and how it invades and affects current lives, damaged children and the as-a-result damaged parents, and the existential struggle of a character who is attempting to understand his place in the world. Prize Stock with its story of relationship between the African American airman and the Japanese villages who capture him after his plane crashes during the war and Aghwee The Sky Monster in which a hired companion for a once famous concert pianist tries to understand the pianist's current madness are my favorite stories in the collection. The sadness of the relationship of the father and his brain damaged son in Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, the title story, continues the very personal story the novelist began in A Personal Matter which I had read many years ago. A sad, stoicism - often self-destructive - pervades each story in the collection."
""My life has a splendid continuity, don't you agree, especially in the details?"
For maximum psychological effect, read the stories in this order:
Aghwee, The Sky Monster Prize Stock Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away
The final story on this list exhibits an autobiographical bravery that verges on the perverse. Something like laying out organs on a table: brain, heart, liver, spleen."
"Dear God, this is what I was looking for when I first read Oe's (rather weak) "Somersault". This book is full of blood and sweat. It's a tough book, not necessarily because his narratives are complicated (although they are), but because it's constantly challenging you, particularly me as a Westerner who has to use my imagination to reflect on some things that are not part of my cultural milieu. This book is a beautiful, fantastic, and unique experience not for the faint of heart. Now, I understand why Oe got the Nobel prize."
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