Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
"That Man should Labour & sorrow, & learn & forget, & returnTo the dark valley whence he came, to begin his labour anew."William Blake, Vala, or the Four Zoas, Night the Eighth (quoted in the translators' introduction)Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was Kenzaburo Oe's debut novel in 1958. It differs significantly from his later, more complex and self-referential work, but is a striking story in it's own right.The novel has an allegorical feel, with no specifics of time or place,
Review: https://roofbeamreader.com/2010/09/19...
Skimming through the reviews, this book is most notably compared to William Golding's Lord of the flies and for very good reason. There are many elements from this book which bring that to mind but I would also like to state that this book is more like Lord of the flies neat's night of the living Dead or Dawn of the Dead, the movies.I've been a fan of zombie movies for a long time. During one of the documentaries I was watching on the making of such I heard something that changed my whole
Kenzaburo Oe won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. This is his first novel, published when he was 23. It is based on his experiences as a child growing up on a remote Japanese island during World War II. When I read the book last November, I was going through a period of reading about WWII from the Japanese point of view, for which I was glad. It opened my eyes and mind, helping me to shake off some of my high school history teachings.The kids in this story are from a reform school and
The lost boys disease. Rabbits caught in the headlights and there will be no more tricks disease. Dogs humping legs fall right off disease. Roaches who might be indestructible for better or for worse disease. But who are the roaches (for better, or for worse)? The Japanese reform school boys or the contributing to my already bad image of hateful villagers types? Indestructible, anyway. (We could see who scurried away when the lights come back on.)The book blurb lies. The boys don't try to build
So, so dark. Jesus.
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Original Title: | 芽むしり仔撃ち (Memushiri Kouchi) |
ISBN: | 0802134637 (ISBN13: 9780802134639) |
Edition Language: | English |
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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated in wartime to a remote mountain village where they are feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, the villagers flee, blocking the boys inside the deserted town. Their brief attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love, and tribal valor is doomed in the face of death and the adult nightmare of war.Present Epithetical Books Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Title | : | Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids |
Author | : | Kenzaburō Ōe |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 189 pages |
Published | : | June 13th 1996 by Grove Press (first published 1958) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Asia. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Literature |
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"Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids" is the first novel written by Kenzaburo Oe at the young age of 23 (but then again you probably already knew this).The novel is a harsh insight into the world of World War 2 Japan, and provides a deeply introspective satire and criticism of this Japan.The stories protagonist an unnamed early adolescent boy is the engine of the story, propelling it forward through beautiful descriptions and anecdotes on japan at the time. A reformatory boy, being evacuated to the"That Man should Labour & sorrow, & learn & forget, & returnTo the dark valley whence he came, to begin his labour anew."William Blake, Vala, or the Four Zoas, Night the Eighth (quoted in the translators' introduction)Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was Kenzaburo Oe's debut novel in 1958. It differs significantly from his later, more complex and self-referential work, but is a striking story in it's own right.The novel has an allegorical feel, with no specifics of time or place,
Review: https://roofbeamreader.com/2010/09/19...
Skimming through the reviews, this book is most notably compared to William Golding's Lord of the flies and for very good reason. There are many elements from this book which bring that to mind but I would also like to state that this book is more like Lord of the flies neat's night of the living Dead or Dawn of the Dead, the movies.I've been a fan of zombie movies for a long time. During one of the documentaries I was watching on the making of such I heard something that changed my whole
Kenzaburo Oe won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. This is his first novel, published when he was 23. It is based on his experiences as a child growing up on a remote Japanese island during World War II. When I read the book last November, I was going through a period of reading about WWII from the Japanese point of view, for which I was glad. It opened my eyes and mind, helping me to shake off some of my high school history teachings.The kids in this story are from a reform school and
The lost boys disease. Rabbits caught in the headlights and there will be no more tricks disease. Dogs humping legs fall right off disease. Roaches who might be indestructible for better or for worse disease. But who are the roaches (for better, or for worse)? The Japanese reform school boys or the contributing to my already bad image of hateful villagers types? Indestructible, anyway. (We could see who scurried away when the lights come back on.)The book blurb lies. The boys don't try to build
So, so dark. Jesus.
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