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		Oe Kenzaburo was born on January 31, 1935, in Ose village, Kita Province, in Ehime prefecture on the southern island of Shikoku.
		Oe's envy of the postwar generation was twofold: he was too young to become a postwar writer [immediate postwar], and too young to be the contemporary reader of that generation.
		Oe's trilogy, On the Day of Grandeur, which he intended to be a culmination of his literary activities, is akin to a macrocosmic epic, although the novel is set for the large part in the rural areas in Japan, and the language he uses is prosaic.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/papers/scholars/pugarelli/pugarelli.htm (2426 words)

	Oe, Kenzaburo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.
		Oe Kenzaburo's Warera no jidai: (Our generation) (1): sex, power, and the other in occupied Japan.
		Kenzaburo Oe and his son Hikari: a story of creative rebellion.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/OeK1enzabu.asp (511 words)

	»»Reviews for Oe, Kenzaburo«« (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oe sets _The Silent Cry_ in a rural village in his native Japan, and through the eyes of the urban protagonist Takeshi, the cultural war between ancient and modern (or native and foreign) is shown as a series of grotesque suicides, mob riots, and incestuous incidents.
		Kenzaburo Oe, the Japanese novelist who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, was 28 when his son, Hikari, was born.
		Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, and so he lived through World War II as a child in Imperialist Japan.
	www.booksunderreview.com /Arts/Literature/Authors/O/Oe,_Kenzaburo (3832 words)

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		Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in a village hemmed in by the
		Oe's grandmother was a critical storyteller who defended the culture of the village, narrating to him homourously, but ever defiantly, anti-national stories.
		Oe's interest in Okinawa was oriented, politically, toward the lives of the Okinawans living on what became a U.S. military base, and, culturally, to what Okinawa meant to him in terms of its traditions.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/oenobel.html (1621 words)

	Oe Kenzaburo
		Oe came from a family of wealthy landowners, who lost most of their property with the occupation-imposed land reform following the war.
		Married in 1960, Oe entered a further stage of development in his writing when his son was born in 1963 with an abnormality of the skull.
		Oe continued to investigate the problems of characters who feel alienated from establishment conformity and the materialism of postwar Japan's consumer-oriented society.
	www.nobel-winners.com /Literature/oe_kenzaburo.html (534 words)

	Oe, Kenzaburo, Kojintekina taiken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The public sphere for Oe means the age of the political movements in the 60s, in which Oe's generation was deeply involved.
		It seems that this "happiness" is simply universalized into the world happiness in the end, while neglecting his wife (does he ever mention her name in the novel?) and his lover, Himiko (how come she simply accepts Bird when he is weak, and let him leave when he feels strong, without any complaints?).
		Oe's notion of the personal is thus quite tricky in the sense that his "personal" does not mean personal or individual after all, but indicates the matter of the Self, the universal, masculine, humanist subject of the modern age.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/k/x/kxs334/academic/fiction/oe_kojinteki.html (754 words)

	Hikari Finds His Voice
		Oe, already depressed about his stagnating career as an author, struggled with the decision, thinking he and his wife must escape from the "monster baby." While considering their options they visited Doctors at Hiroshima who were working with atomic blast victims; some of these physicians suffered themselves from the effects of radiation.
		Oe's novels gained new vitality as he attempted to give voice to his son who never learned to speak beyond a few limited words.
		According to Oe, the real life decision was made quickly, and he only really thought for a minute of "mercy killing," but in the book, the decision takes much longer for dramatic reasons.
	www.chninternational.com /hikarich.htm (1808 words)

	Kenzaburo Oe - Biography
		Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in a village hemmed in by the forests of Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan.
		Oe's grandmother was a critical storyteller who defended the culture of the village, narrating to him humourously, but ever defiantly, anti-national stories.
		The implication of this project is that Oe deems his effort at presenting his cosmology, history and folk legend as having been brought to full circle, and that he has succeeded in creating, through his portrayal of that place in the valley and its people, a model for this contemporary age.
	nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1994/oe-bio.html (1711 words)

	Oe Kenzaburo: "A Personal Matter"
		Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in a small Japanese town on the island of Shikoku.
		Oe said he only considered performing a mercy killing so the baby wouldnft unduly suffer for perhaps 5 minutes since the doctors were so pessimistic about the baby having an endurable future.
		Oe often says how grateful he is that he and his wife made the decision to fight for their babyfs life.
	www.ucalgary.ca /%7Exyang/j341_01f/oef20.htm (3060 words)

	Amazon.com: buying info: Kant in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes)
		Kenzaburo’s characters Mori and Mori-father, in combination with Hikari and Hikari-father reflect mirror images of each other in Kenzaburo’s attempt to resolve the segmented individual in a society that is removed from a natural existence of birth, reproduction and death.
		Switchovers, Patrons, Big Shots, marriages on the rocks, rebellious anti-governmental groups, and the emerging relationship between a mentally retarded son and his father are some of the aspects of Oe Kenzaburo’s Pinch Runner Memorandum.
		A truly avant-garde piece of literature, Oe combines the worlds of three characters; Mori, Mori-Father, and the Ghostwriter to create a stirring story that captures the essence of grotesque fiction, social commentary, and perhaps in some instances, comedy.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jmurphy/JPT3121file/PINCH.HTM (1234 words)

	Oe Kenzaburo Definition / Oe Kenzaburo Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kenzaburo Oe (大江健三郎 Ōe Kenzaburō, born January 31, 1935) is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literatureJapanese literature spans a period of almost two millennia of writing.
		Oe Kenzaburo is a Novel Literature Prize winner in 1994.
		Oe Kenzaburo is a more recent winner and more "political.
	www.elresearch.com /Oe_Kenzaburo (139 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: A Healing Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oe sets out here to document the life and contribution to the family of his son, Hikari, born in 1963 with a major malformation of his brain.
		Oe, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature, is best known to American readers for A Personal Matter (1970), The Silent City (Kodansha, 1994), and An Echo of Heaven (LJ 4/1/96).
		In his latest nonfiction work, Oe tells of his experiences for the last 33 years raising his brain-damaged son, Hikari, whom doctors had predicted would never be more than a vegetable.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/4770027338 (833 words)

	Road to East Asia
		Recurring themes that characterize what is distinctly Oe's art include the development of a cultural hero, the defeat of Japan and the cost of that defeat, and the birth of a retarded son (Michiko N. Wilson, The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo, 6).
		Oe's approach is often a refinement of famous Asian and Western masters such as Kim Chi Ha and Mark Twain.
		Oe's candid criticism of his country's aggressive foreign policy largely accounts for the controversy surrounding him and his Nobel prize in Japan.
	www.yorku.ca /iwai/kih.html (1019 words)

	Kenzaburo Oe
		Kenzaburo Oe was born in a mountain village on the island of Shikoku, the smallest of the four main Japanese islands, where his family had lived for centuries.
		Oe wanted to experiment with language and create a new way of literary expression, which would capture the social and psychological changes that took place in his home country.
		Oe's strong sense of social involvement led him in the anti-American Security Treaty protests in 1960, he was an antinuclear spokesman and involved in radical causes.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /oe.htm (1757 words)

	Kenzaburo Oe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kenzaburo Oe A novelist, essayist, and short story writer, Oe was born in 1935 on the Japanese island of Shikoku.
		A prolific writer, Oe addresses the themes of family, childhood, and war.
		Oe considers himself a “writer of the periphery.” He has said, “Literature must be written from the periphery towards the center, and we can criticize the center.
	www.ou.edu /worldlit/authors/oe/oe.html (212 words)

	Kenzaburo Oe - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kenzaburo Oe (大江健三郎 born 1935) is a Japanese writer.
		Born and raised in a village in Shikoku, he moved to Tokyo at age eighteen to study French literature at Tokyo University and began writing while still a student in 1957, strongly influenced by contemporary writing in France and the United States.
		Oe won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Oe_Kenzaburo (98 words)

	Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe, cover page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This interview is part of the Institute's "Conversations with History" series, and uses Internet technology to share with the public Berkeley's distinction as a global forum for ideas.
		Oe's achievements as a writer committed to both literary and humanitarian causes were recognized in 1994 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
		Oe is on the Berkeley campus today to give the Maruyama Lecture, sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people/Oe/oe-con0.html (145 words)

	Somersault, by Kenzaburo Oe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kenzaburo Oe is internationally recognized as one of the world's finest writers.
		Now, with Somersault, Oe has broken his silence and shared with us the result of his artistic reorientation, in a magnificent story of the charisma of leaders, the danger of zealotry, and the mystery of faith.
		Somersault is an astonishing achievement that again confirms Kenzaburo Oe's place among the world's finest writers, even as it takes his body of work in fresh and fertile new directions.
	www.bhny.com /pow/POW028.html (489 words)

	Oe Kenzaburo
		Oe Kenzaburo was not one of the "big five" 20th century Japanese novelists I was meeting in the course I took in 1973.
		I read this novel that summer, and was made uncomfortable by the way the psychology of the problem was handled (the basic problem of the deformed child Oe has evidently handled very well in his own life).
		The next Oe I read was several years later, the novel, The Silent Cry, while I was enrolled in an NEH summer program at the University of California at Berkeley in the summer of 1984, which had gathered together Japanese specialists from across the country.
	www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/Oe.html (687 words)

	Oe, Kenzaburo
		Probably Oe Kenzaburo's most widely known novel, this book was the first one he wrote after the birth of his son, and his first book to be translated into English.
		Kenzaburo Oe During the last catastrophic world war, I was a little boy and lived in a remote wooded valley on Shikoku Island in the Japanese Archipelago, thousands of miles away from here.
		After I read what Oe has accomplished in his writing career I feel that he is more like an anti-war politician who is able to describe his feeling in writing.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~xyang/j341/ooepg.htm (5479 words)

	Oe Kenzaburo -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Oe came from a family of wealthy landowners, who lost most of their property with the occupation-imposed land…
		Referring to the impact on Oe and his generation of Japan's defeat in World War II and the subsequent occupation, the Swedish Academy of Letters wrote, “The humiliation took a firm grip on him and has...
		A woman of some musical ability, she is probably more remembered for writing the song ‘Aloha Oe' than for her role as queen.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056787?tocId=9056787 (738 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The MUSIC OF LIGHT : THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF HIKARI AND KENZABURO OE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, has written much about Hikari and the rest of his family over the years.
		Oe's close relationship with his son is unusual, especially in Japanese society, where men do not usually get very involved with raising their children.
		Hikari and Kenzaburo Oe influence each other's work tremendously, and the elder Oe's writing and fame have had an enormous impact on the family's life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684824094?v=glance (837 words)

	Oe Kenzaburo Unofficial Fan Club
		The name of this homepage is 'Oe Kenzaburo Fan Club', however, it is not a real fan club.
		Oe Kenzaburo in 1961, but it have not published yet by the pressure of right-wing organization.
		Kenzaburo Oe will present a lecture for PCJLS on Feb. 16 (Sun).
	www.ops.dti.ne.jp /~kunio-i/personal/oe/oee.html (874 words)

	Kenzaburo Oe biography
		Kenzaburo Oe, biography of the 1994 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Ose, Japan.
		Kenzaburo Oe, recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Ose, Japan.
		Oe's first short story, SHISHA NO OGORI (LAVISH ARE THE DEAD), was published when he was 22.
	ks.essortment.com /kensaburooebio_rstn.htm (353 words)

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		Oe, a native of Japan, was recognized by the Nobel committee for his extraordinary "mythic vision" which finds the universal in the particulars of his own rural boyhood, a complicated and sometimes tragic personal life, and the uneasy complexities of contemporary Japan.
		Oe and his host discussed everything from abstract topics such as modern literature, music and religion, to Oe's son, Hikari, the inspiration for many of Oe's greatest novels.
		Oe spent the afternoon meeting with Asian Studies graduate students and conducting a workshop at the Texas Center for Writers.
	menic.utexas.edu /asnic/subject/962newsletter/Sp97nsletter.html (4830 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Hiroshima Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oe went on a reporting assignment to Hiroshima that resulted in "a decisive turnabout" of his life which, he says, "eschewing all religious connotations, I would still call a conversion".
		It is through Dr. Shigeta that Oe learns how the bomb victims become social outcasts, have difficulties finding marital partners, get divorced because they cannot have children, hide in shame in the back-rooms of their houses for years, and commit suicide or go insane upon learning that they are diagnosed as having "an A-bomb disease".
		Oe examines the feelings of shame and humiliation in the victims, and the attempts of the people of Hiroshima to forget what he calls the "holocaust of the A-bomb".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802134645?v=glance (1364 words)

	Books \| In the forest of the soul
		Kenzaburo Oë lost his father in the second world war and says the Japanese defeat is what made him a novelist.
		When Kenzaburo Oë was 28, and already a cult writer for Japan's postwar youth, his first child was born in 1963 with a herniated brain pushing out of his skull, the "two-headed monster baby" of Oë's later fiction.
		Corrective surgery threatened brain damage, and for a while the father longed for the infant's death - a "disgraceful" time, he later wrote in a fictionalised memoir, that "no powerful detergent has allowed me to wash out of my life".
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5119135-99930,00.html (3732 words)

	Booklist: Oe, Kenzaburo. Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
		As in many Oe novels, the family here is his, and he is the father.
		Returning from weeks in Europe speaking against nuclear weapons and for peace, as Oe in fact does, the father encounters a tense household.
		The father’s interpretations of Blake and examinations of the past, including episodes from his World War II childhood and early university days as well as the more recent deaths of friends, enable him to understand Eeyore’s crisis and its resolution as the work of the ultimately redemptive human imagination.
	archive.ala.org /booklist/v98/fe1/01oe.html (215 words)

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