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Biography

Name: Kenzaburo Oe
Birth Date: January 31, 1935
Nationality: Japanese
Ethnicity: Japanese
Gender: Male

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Biography of Kenzaburo Oe
6,309 words, approx. 21 pages
e Kenzabur is a representative of contemporary Japanese literature by virtue of his abundant powers of creativity. In a literary career extending over four decades he has produced a large number of fine works, and in Japan he has received several...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Oe Kenzaburo Summary
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(b. 1935), Japanese novelist, nonfiction essayist, and winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature. Oe Kenzaburo is known throughout the world by translations of his work as a weaver of historical, mythical, and sexually grotesque novels and in Japan...
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Kenzaburo Oe Information
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Kenzaburo Ōe (大江 健三郎, Ōe Kenzaburō?, born January 31, 1935) is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engage with political, social and...


News and Journals
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Kenzaburo Oe. Somersault.(Book Review)
06/22/2003: 351 words, approx. 1 pages
Trans. Philip Gabriel. Grove, 2003. 576 pp. $29.95. In his first new novel since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Kenzaburo Oe offers an examination of the nature of faith when it is balanced against the potential for human self-annihilation in the...
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World Literature Today
America through the eyes of Oe Kenzaburo.
01/01/2002: 3,693 words, approx. 12 pages
WE ARE DEEPLY HONORED to have as our guest at the University of Oklahoma this spring Mr. Oe Kenzaburo the Nobel laureate in literature for 1994. His presence for two weeks of lectures and classes is a high compliment to World Literature Today,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Susan J. Napier
12,493 words, approx. 42 pages
In the following essay, Napier examines how the early works of Ōe and Mishima Yukio—particularly Ōe's “Prize Stock” and Pluck the Buds, Shoot the Kids and Yukio's Sound of Waves—represent a rejection of traditional Japanese narratives by focusing heavily on pastoral and dream-like themes.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
10,760 words, approx. 36 pages
[Wilson is a critic and educator specializing in Japanese and comparative literature. In the following essay, she analyzes Ōe's variations on his most recurrent themes in five of his works and elucidates its relation to the genres of satire and "grotesque realism" as defined by structuralist theory.]
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Critical Essay by Reiko Tachibana
10,106 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Tachibana analyzes thematic aspects of Ōe's “Prize Stock,” perceiving the story to be a study of power in a Japanese village community.
 


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