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Two Hundred Years Old
General Fiction两百年的孩子
(japan) Oe Kenzaburo
"The Two Hundred Years' Child" is a fantasy novel written by Japanese Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe. In this work, three children, a mentally retarded brother, a healthy sister and a younger brother, use a time travel device to witness various scenes of social changes and historical processes in Japan over the past 150 years, and the story unfolds accordingly. The author uses a narrative structure that intersects time and space to express Japan's two hundred years of history since the Meiji Restoration, as well as the state of human soul and body, material and spirituality in this historical process, thus proposing the idea of "new man". In addition to continuing the social themes of social criticism, disaster prediction, historical exploration, and cultural reflection in the four dimensions of social criticism, disaster prediction, historical exploration, and cultural reflection during the period when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the work also focuses on thinking and exploring the future destiny of mankind, and ultimately places what he thinks is the answer on children as the "new human beings."
"The Two Hundred Years' Child" is a fantasy novel written by Japanese Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe. In this work, three children, a mentally retarded brother, a healthy sister and a younger brother, use a time travel device to witness various scenes of social changes and historical processes in Japan over the past 150 years, and the story unfolds accordingly. The author uses a narrative structure that intersects time and space to express Japan's two hundred years of history since the Meiji Restoration, as well as the state of human soul and body, material and spirituality in this historical process, thus proposing the idea of "new man". In addition to continuing the social themes of social criticism, disaster prediction, historical exploration, and cultural reflection in the four dimensions of social criticism, disaster prediction, historical exploration, and cultural reflection during the period when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the work also focuses on thinking and exploring the future destiny of mankind, and ultimately places what he thinks is the answer on children as the "new human beings."