“My son Hikari, at 40, still cannot tie his shoes. But he composes music that makes angels weep. That is the economy of a special love: you give up small efficiencies, you gain infinite new languages.”
A Spanish-language PDF titled “Kenzaburo Oe Un Amor Especial” could very well be: Kenzaburo Oe Un Amor Especial.pdf
In 1963, Kenzaburo Oe was a young, rising star in Japanese literature, known for his angry, violent, and politically charged fiction. That year, his wife gave birth to their first son. The baby was born with a herniated brain stem, a condition that left him with a cranial deformity and, doctors warned, severe intellectual disabilities. Oe was plunged into an existential crisis. “My son Hikari, at 40, still cannot tie his shoes