Kenzaburo Oe Quotes & Sayings
16 most famous Kenzaburo Oe quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.”
“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.”
“I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.”
“After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.”
“Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.”
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