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Games of the Contemporary: Notes of a Pinchrunner

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Published in 1979, "Contemporary Games" is one of Kenzaburo Ōe's most complex and profound works. The novel is written in the form of six letters sent by the protagonist to his twin sister. In them, the author, through his character, reflects on the past, present, and future of his native country and attempts to create a new, diverse model for Japanese society, in which the unifying cult of the emperor is replaced by the triumvirate of "village-state-microcosm."

The novel "Notes of a Pinchrunner" explores Ōe's familiar themes of self-determination and the uncertainty of Japanese youth living in fear of the dangers of the nuclear age. In baseball (a game that became more than just a game for the postwar Japanese generation), a pinchrunner is a player capable of saving a losing team with a single, daring run. In the novel, this pinchrunner is a character known only as Mori's father. A man dedicates his life to fighting the mysterious Patron, an unscrupulous manipulator who is trying to trick two youth groups into creating a "dirty" nuclear bomb capable of wiping Tokyo off the face of the earth in an instant.
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