name: Kenzaburō Ōe
birth_date: 1935-01-31 00:00:00
death_date: 2023-03-03 00:00:00
genres: Literature & Fiction
influences: T.S. Eliot, Mark Twain, Dante, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Blake, Lu Xun, Malcolm Lowry, André Gide, Edgar Allan Poe, Cervantes, François Rabelais
avg_rating: 3.78
ratings_count: 38454
about: Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎), is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engage 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." Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎), is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engage 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