Kenzaburo Oe

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5 total works indexed

1. Misreading, Espionage and “Beautiful Martyrdom”: On Hearing the Okinawa ‘Mass Suicides’ Suit Court Verdict. UPDATE

   · 2008 · cited 8x

2. Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: Nobel Lecture 1994

   · 1995 · cited 6x

3. Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma

   · 1988 · cited 3x

4. An Exchange of Letters

   · 2000 · cited 1x

5. The Day the Emperor Spoke in a Human Voice

   · 2002 · cited 1x

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Quotes

• “To repeat the error by exhibiting, through the construction of nuclear reactors, the same disrespect for human life is the worst possible betrayal of the memory of Hiroshima’s victims.”
• “The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.”
• “It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.”
• “Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.”
• “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
• “If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.”

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