SOURCE: Ōe, Kenzaburō. “Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: Nobel Lecture 1994.” World Literature Today 69, no. 1 (winter 1995): 5-9.
In the following transcript of Ōe's Nobel Lecture, originally delivered on December 8, 1994, the author outlines the dilemmas confronting post-war Japan and discusses the influence of his mentally-challenged son, Hikari, on his life and work.
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