Trilogía de Hiroshima"Hiroshima" de John Hersey, "Hiroshima Notes" de Kenzaburo Oe, y "Yo viví la bomba atómica" del P. Pedro Arrupe

Resumen

In the fifty years since the destruction of Hiroshima, among the numerous books written on the subject, there are three which recount to a particular degree the experience of and the reflection about the event, John Hersey, American, Pulitzer Prize-winner in 1945, in his book Hiroshima, Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese, Nobel Prize-winner in 1994, in his book, Hiroshima Notes, and Pedro Arrupe, Spanish, a Jesuit Father living in Hiroshima at the time of the explosion and later on General superior of the Jesuits, in his book, Yo viví la bomba atómica, give us their reflections of the event and its human implications. Though the approach and even the aim of each author are different, their effect is to leave the reader with a sense of bewilderment at the magnitude of the atomic holocaust. The present-day reader of these three books will have no doubt about the efficient contribution the books and their authors have made to create an appropriate climate for the world opinion to bend against that monster of the twentieth century called atomic bomb, and whose most pathetic symbol was the annihilation of the city of Hiroshima.