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Author: Japanese. Kenzaburō ōe
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: Frisbee is a masterpiece by the prominent post-war Japanese writer Kenzaburō ōe, crafted after four years of arduous effort and released in 1999. The novel features two controversial characters, "The Master" and "The Guide," who had founded a religious group. As the radical faction among the followers prepared to carry out a terrorist act by destroying a nuclear power plant, "The Master" and "The Guide" performed a "frisbee," announcing that their doctrine was false, foolish, and a farce. Consequently, the church declared dissolution, and the radical movement was thwarted. Ten years later, the two former leaders planned to rise again, but a series of unexpected events occurred. "The Master" had no new foundation, and at that moment, a new "church" quietly emerged.
Kenzaburō ōe explores the contradictions and conflicts in the souls of Japanese people in modern society. The richness of his thematic content and the objectivity and depth of his analysis are unparalleled in his previous works. As this Nobel laureate in literature himself believed, Frisbee is his most important work, his longest novel, and possibly his last novel in his lifetime.