Kenzaburo Oe on 70th Anniv. of US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[jochen stremmel]

I think Pynchon handles it pretty well if laconic. (As laconic as he
handles German holocausts.)

And the best novel about the bombing of Dresden is from an American as well.

2015-08-07 13:46 GMT+02:00 John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>:

> Always feels to me that the US never really worked over the bombings of
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki on an artistic/cultural level the way German postwar
> artists addressed their own nation's actions. Not unusual of course,
> Japan's own actions in Manchuria are rarely addressed in fiction and
> Australia is obsessed with romanticizing WWI and II. But am I missing a
> great US work about the Hiroshima bombing that's equivalent to any of the
> German greats?
> On 7 Aug 2015 8:43 pm, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Very moving interview. His life is a parable. I second the recommendation.
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> > On Aug 7, 2015, at 2:57 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
>> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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>> > Great interview, thanks!
>> >
>> > Oe's books - start with "A Personal Matter"! - I can recommend.
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>> >> On 07.08.2015 03:33, Dave Monroe wrote:
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