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(★)(The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures／ In December 1994, on the acceptance of only the second Nobel Prize awarded to a Japanese writer, Kenzaburo Oe gave a speech that was a message for mankind : one that pledged his own faith in tolerance and human decency ; in the renunciation of war ; and in the healing power of art -the power to calm and purify. Other key address he has given elsewhere join the Nobel lecture in this volume, giving a wider view of the work of a literary activist who sees himself as one of a dying breed in the intellectual life of his own country.／ Even those unfamiliar with his writing will be stimulated by the free-ranging thoughts of one of the century´s most brilliant minds.／ ◆Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935 in a village in Shikoku, an island off the southwest coast of mainland Japan. After studying French literature at Tokyo University, he won his first literary award -the coveted Akutagawa Prize- for a short story, ´The Catch´. A writer committed to both literary and humanitarian causes, his output has included (in English) ´A Personal Matter´,´The Silent Cry´,´Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness´,´The Pinch Runner Memorandum´, and ´Nip the Buds, Kill the Kids´. These and other works of his have been widely translated, not only in Europe and Russia but in several Asian countries. Oe, who won the Nobel Prize in 1994, lives in Tokyo with his wife and three children.／ ▼CONTENTS／ ●Speaking on Japanese Culture before a Scandinavian Audience ●On Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature ●Japan´s Dual Identity : A Writer´s Dilemma ●Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself [Titulo original : あいまいな日本の私]) |
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