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Aghwee The Sky MonsterAghwee The Sky Monster (空の怪物アグイー, Sora no kaibutsu Aguii) is a short story by the Nobel Prize winning Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe. Oe wrote a string of novels and short stories inspired by the birth of his developmentally disabled son Hikari Oe. These include Aghwee The Sky Monster, A Personal Matter, and The Pinch Runner Memorandum among others. In both A Personal Matter and Agwee The Sky Monster, a father has to make a decision about what to do with his new born after doctors diagnose the child with having a brain hernia. The doctors offer to either perform a surgery that could impair the child more or let the child die. In Agwee, the father chooses the latter and is "haunted" by the apparition of an adult-sized baby. The story revolves around a nameless main character who is hired to watch over the father. Although these stories are reminisent of events that actually happened in Oe's life, neither story can be considered as part of the confessional shishōsetsu tradition that occurs elsewhere in Japanese literature. Summary Ten years ago, in spring, I was a university student and D hired me as part-time job. His father said to me, D is obsessed by a monster and he stays home giving up his work. (He was little famous musician.) I want you to accompany him when he desire to go somewhere.
D talked that in sunny day, it came down from the sky high. And he told me not to wonder and to keep my mind when it falls at Me.
Soon did I know the fact that it was a baby whom D had killed. The baby was diagnosed with hernia on his or her head. But after the baby was anatomized, D got the truth that hernia is wrong diagnosis. The babys knot like hernia was only swelling. He called that monster Aghwee why the baby had utteredAghwee for the first and last time.
After I caught his affair, I saw a woman who had divorced him and saw his lover to inform his message of. Moreover I went to many places with D, where he had played once. Then, I love this job!
On 24th December of that year, D and I visit Ginza and he gave me watch. Suddenly, he shouted at crossing and he bursted to run that road. He was run over.
Staying the outside of his sickroom in hospital, I struck some doubt. I suspected if he had intended to commit suicide and pretended madman possessed by a monster. The next of the day, I read evening paper and knew his death.
This spring, a group of children threw a stone at me and this stone hit right eye of mine. Dropping blood from my eye, I felt an existence what I had attached ten years ago, and I was released from hatred toward this children.
Good Bye, Aghwee. I said.
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