Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

Kenzaburo Oe — Japanese Writer born on January 31, 1935,

Kenzaburō Ōe is a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays were strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory. They deal with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism... (wikipedia)

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

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

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.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.

Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

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