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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


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

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.78 · 42,506 ratings · 4,830 reviews · 232 distinct works • Similar authors
A Personal Matter
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3.90 avg rating — 16,193 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions
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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
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3.80 avg rating — 5,639 ratings — published 1958 — 55 editions
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The Silent Cry
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3.84 avg rating — 4,871 ratings — published 1967 — 76 editions
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Teach Us to Outgrow Our Mad...
3.84 avg rating — 2,672 ratings — published 1966 — 35 editions
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La presa
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3.71 avg rating — 1,516 ratings — published 1957 — 14 editions
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A Quiet Life
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3.60 avg rating — 1,246 ratings — published 1990 — 30 editions
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The Changeling
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3.55 avg rating — 1,221 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Hiroshima Notes
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3.82 avg rating — 1,088 ratings — published 1965 — 24 editions
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Death by Water
3.20 avg rating — 1,170 ratings — published 2009 — 43 editions
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Rouse Up, O Young Men of th...
3.73 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 1983 — 22 editions
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“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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