SOURCE: "Kenzaburo Ōe: A New World of Imagination," in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring, 1985, pp. 80-95.
[In the following essay, Yoshida argues for the universality of Ōe's fiction, citing its strong affinities with the "grotesque realism" of the French Renaissance writer François Rabelais.]
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