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Kenzaburo Oe

Japanese Writer

Born: Jan 31, 1935

After Constitution Country Japan War World

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Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. Kenzaburo Oe

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large. Kenzaburo Oe

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. Kenzaburo Oe

Mine Survived Representing Form Novel Sufferings

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. Kenzaburo Oe

War Constitution World Imperative Categorical New End Forever Article After Central Declare Us Second World War Second World War

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. Kenzaburo Oe

Country Hundred Split Observation Between Since Opening Poles Opposite Years Ambiguity After Japan Twenty Present-Day Two

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors. Kenzaburo Oe

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. Kenzaburo Oe

Country Invader Drove Ambiguous Japan Asia Orientation Position

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