SOURCE: Loughman, Celeste. “The Seamless Universe of Oe Kenzaburo.” World Literature Today 73, no. 3 (summer 1999): 417-22.
In the following essay, Loughman explores Ōe's use of “simultaneity—of past and present, fact and dream, history and myth” in The Silent Cry, arguing that Ōe constructs an ambiguous moral universe in the novel.
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