SOURCE: Wilson, Michiko N. “A Narrative of Simultaneity: The Football Game of the First Year of Manen.” In The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo: A Study in Themes and Techniques, pp. 48-60. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1986.
In the following essay, Wilson argues that the narrative in The Football Game of the First Year of Manen is constructed as “an attempt to look simultaneously at the linear movement of historical events.”
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