小説のたくらみ、知の楽しみ [Shōsetsu no takurami chi no tanoshimi]

by Kenzaburō Ōe, 大江 健三郎

Japanese

217 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1985

About the author

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."