The author's critical study examines the key works of fiction by Oe Kenzaburo – the internationally renowned Japanese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Liter

Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the huma

Two views of a world whose traditional values had been blown away: Seventeen, the story of a lonely boy who turns to a right-wing group for self-esteem, and J,

Oe introduces Kogito Choko, a writer in his early sixties, as he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law, the renowned filmmaker Goro

The Nobel Prize–winning “master of the bizarre plunges the reader into a world of tortured imagination” in this four-novella collection (Library Journal).