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Kenzaburō Ōe

Born

in Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

January 31, 1935

Died

March 03, 2023

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

T.S. Eliot, William Blake, Cervantes, Dante, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lu Xun, ...more

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Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎) was a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engages with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism.

Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 41,527 ratings · 4,651 reviews · 240 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe, John Nathan 3.90 avg rating — 15,782 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe, Paul St. John Mackintosh (editor), Maki Sugiyama (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 5,536 ratings — published 1958 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silent Cry by Kenzaburō Ōe, John Bester (translator) 3.84 avg rating — 4,722 ratings — published 1967 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness 3.82 avg rating — 2,741 ratings — published 1966 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La presa by Kenzaburō Ōe, Yoonah Kim (Translator), Joaquim Jordà (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 1,465 ratings — published 1957 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Quiet Life by Kenzaburō Ōe, Kunioki Yanagishita (Translator), William Wetherall (Translator) 3.59 avg rating — 1,236 ratings — published 1990 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Changeling by Kenzaburō Ōe, Deborah Boliver Boehm 3.54 avg rating — 1,217 ratings — published 2000 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburō Ōe, David L. Swain (Translator), Toshi Yonezawa (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 1,046 ratings — published 1965 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death by Water 3.20 avg rating — 1,141 ratings — published 2009 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age! 3.73 avg rating — 683 ratings — published 1983 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Kenzaburō Ōe (?)

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

tags: death

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“Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

tags: morals, society, understanding, work

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“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.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

tags: insight

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