In the forest of the soul
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1405323,00.html
Kenzaburo O=EB lost his father in the second world war and says the
Japanese defeat is what made him a novelist. A cult figure, he wrote a
cycle of books about his relationship with his autistic son, and won
the Nobel prize for literature. Now 70, and a fierce critic of
resurgent militarism, he will be in Hiroshima next month to mark the
city's destruction 60 years ago
Maya Jaggi
Saturday February 5, 2005
The Guardian
When Kenzaburo O=EB was 28, and already a cult writer for Japan's
postwar youth, his first child was born in 1963 with a herniated brain
pushing out of his skull, the "two-headed monster baby" of O=EB's later
fiction. Corrective surgery threatened brain damage, and for a while
the father longed for the infant's death - a "disgraceful" time, he
later wrote in a fictionalised memoir, that "no powerful detergent has
allowed me to wash out of my life". Yet a visit to Hiroshima to report
on a peace congress, and encounters with atomic-bomb survivors,
convinced O=EB beyond doubt that his child must live. "I was trained as
a writer and as a human being by the birth of my son," he says.
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