World Literature Today, January 1st, 2002
WE ARE DEEPLY HONORED to have as our guest at the University of Oklahoma this spring Mr. Oe Kenzaburo the Nobel laureate in literature for 1994. His presence for two weeks of lectures and classes is a high compliment to World Literature Today, which extended the invitation under the auspices of the Puterbaugh Conferences series the journal has sponsored since 1968.
Oe's view of our country is ambivalent. To him, America is the best of
countries and America is the worst of countries. He admires our people's culture and expresses enthusiasm for it as often as he deplores our government's pol...
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