I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. Kenzaburo Oe formminerepresent Change image and share on social
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century. Kenzaburo Oe centurycontinuallyfamily share on social
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. Kenzaburo Oe ambiguitycountryday Change image and share on social
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors. Kenzaburo Oe actfeltfind Change image and share on social
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. Kenzaburo Oe ambiguousasiacountry Change image and share on social
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. Kenzaburo Oe ariseasiaconsumption share on social
The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic. Kenzaburo Oe buildcataclysmicjapan Change image and share on social
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters. Kenzaburo Oe centuryconstitutionhalf Change image and share on social
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. Kenzaburo Oe articlecategoricalcentral Change image and share on social
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large. Kenzaburo Oe consumercreateculture share on social
