At twenty-three, Kenzaburo Oe received his first literary prize, and with it recognition. Over sixty works by Oe have been translated into many languages of the world, including Russian. His most famous novels are “Football of 1860”, “Waters Enveloped Me to My Soul”, “Games of Contemporaries” and others. Now a Nobel Prize winner in 1994, Oe is the most famous and awarded writer in the Land of the Rising Sun. His works, in which the narrative sometimes unfolds in several time layers, are characterized by a mixture of myth and reality, as well as a piercing sharpness of moral sound. In this sense, Oe’s novel “Football 1860,” presented in this edition, is no exception. The heroes of the novel, Minu and Takashi Nedokoro, these Japanese “Karamazov brothers,” are people who passionately seek the meaning of life and, in their impulses, commit self-destructive acts leading to spiritual and physical death.