Fiction
Seventeen/J: Two Novels
Two novels by Kenzaburō Ōe that follow a Japanese teenager drawn to the political right and the violent act he commits in its name. Seventeen is a claustrophobic portrait of adolescence colliding with ideology; J widens the lens to the public aftermath, where the boy becomes both martyr and embarrassment. Ōe wrote in response to actual ultranationalist violence, and the prose refuses the comfort of easy irony.This Foxrock edition presents the pair in translation by Luk Van Haute. The books are short, uncomfortable, and deliberately unresolved—less interested in explaining extremism than in tracing how a lonely mind finds grandeur in it. For readers who can sit with a character's violence without needing him redeemed.
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