SOURCE: Ōe, Kenzaburō, and Sam Staggs. “Kenzaburo Oe: After the Nobel, a New Direction.” Publishers Weekly 242, no. 32 (7 August 1995): 438-39.
In the following interview, Ōe discusses his background as an existentialist and recounts the controversy surrounding his acceptance of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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