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Oe, Kenzaburo
BORN: 1935, Ehime, Shikoku, Japan
NATIONALITY: Japanese
GENRE: Fiction
MAJOR WORKS:
Prize Stock (1958)
A Personal Matter (1964)
The Silent Cry (1967)
An Echo of Heaven (1989)
Somersault (1999)
Overview
One of the foremost figures in contemporary Japanese literature, Oe is highly regarded for intensely imagined and formally innovative novels examining the sense of alienation and anxiety among members of the post–World
War II generation in Japan.
Oe kenzaburo biography of albert
Oe's fiction is both profoundly intellectual and emotionally raw.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
A Traditional Japanese Upbringing Born in 1935 in a small village on the western Japanese island of Shikoku, Oe was raised in a prominent samurai family in accordance with traditional Japanese beliefs.
Like most Japanese children of his generation, Oe was taught to believe that the emperor was a living god. When Emperor Hirohito personally announced in a radio broadcast Japan's surrender to