The Sunday Telegraph London, July 28th, 2002
Rouse Up O Young Men of
the New Age
by Kenzaburo Oe
tr by John Nathan
Atlantic Books, pounds 12.99, 259 pp
pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
KENZABURO OE' s new book first appeared in Japan in 1983, 11 years before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Its curious title is taken from the preface to William Blake's apocalyptic poem Milton; and Blake is the presiding genius from beginning to end.
Oe writes: "It is extraordinary how the grotesquely odd and the fam iliar can reside together in Blake's invention. I have sensed this often, and have moreover come upon any ...
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