The silent cry

This is the name of a Kenzaburo Oe book. The main man is Mitsusaburo, who is a thinking vegetable, without any initiative. His brother Takashi lives in a dream world, but his actions redden the real world of Oe's fiction. The silent cry refers to what agony Mitsusaburo's friend who had hanged himself naked to death, with his face painted crimson and a cucumber thrust up his anus, had caused the man to do the deed. Mitsu mitsu mitsu...He would never budge even if he was cuckolded by his little brother. Such was the magnificence of his indifference. What I feel is that he probably was affected by the actions of others, but he simply chooses not to do anything about it, by sheer will power. Takashi too takes the suicide route if I remember right, but not before replicating his grandfather's brother's and great grandfather's brothers actions, in banding up the village youth and rallying them successfully in pillaging the Korean supermarket. The pace at which normalcy resumes is startling. Oe...what the heck.