Quotes by Kenzaburo Oe

Kenzaburo Oe

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

Children

Firsts

Married

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.

Forever

War

World

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life – in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Different

Relationship

Suffering

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

Night

Reading

Sleep

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

Half

Reality

Support

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.

Asia

Japan

Views

Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.

Firsts

Style

Voice

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

Matter

Style

Writing

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 the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

Culture

Reflection

Wish

I don’t think young people need to see the face of the deceased.

Needs

People

Thinking

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Admitting

Aftermath

Agony

Asia

Believe

Care

Children

Clown

Cosmos

Country

Culture

Different

Effort

Enough

Europe

Firsts

Forever

Form

Green

Half

Hangover

Imagination

Japan

Jesus

Jobs

Lifestyle

Light

Literature

Married

Matter

Men

Military

Morality

Needs

Night

Novel

Opportunity

Past

People

Phony

Prayer

Principles

Reading

Reading Experience

Reality

Reflection

Relationship

Sleep

Son

Sorrow

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Quotes by Kenzaburo Oe

Kenzaburo Oe

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

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.

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life – in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

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.

Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

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 the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

I don’t think young people need to see the face of the deceased.

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