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.
The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow. - Kenzaburo Oe
The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
- Kenzaburo Oe
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. - Kenzaburo Oe
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son "A Personal Matter," I believe I kn… - Kenzaburo Oe
I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son "A Personal Matter," I believe I kn…
After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped. - Kenzaburo Oe
After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.
To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man. - Kenzaburo Oe
To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.
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. - Kenzaburo Oe
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.
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. - Kenzaburo Oe
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
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 th… - 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 th…
The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live. - Kenzaburo Oe
The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.
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