Kenzaburo Oe Quotes


From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.


Citations

Oe, Kenzaburo. "Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself." Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures, Kodansha International, 1995.

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Kenzaburo Oe
Kenzaburo Oe
  • Born: January 31, 1935
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Profession: Novelist, Short-story Writer, Essayist

Kenzaburō Ōe is a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".