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I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.
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The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
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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 knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our "personal matter," and society.
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Kenzaburō Ōe
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Born:
January 31, 1935
Died:
March 3, 2023
(aged 88)
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Kenzaburō Ōe was 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.
Known for:
A Personal Matter (1964)
The Silent Cry (1967)
The Changeling (2000)
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958)
Hiroshima Notes (1965)
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