SOURCE: Reinsma, Luke M. “The Flight of Kenzaburo Oe.” Christianity and Literature 48, no. 1 (autumn 1998): 61-77.
In the following essay, Reinsma traces Ōe's treatment of existential matters in A Personal Matter and maintains that the novel is central to the author's oeuvre “for reasons that are at once literary and personal.”
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