Teach us to outgrow our madness
Subtitle: four short novels
By: by Kenzaburo Oe ; translated and with an introd. by John Nathan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press : distributed by Random House; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; jpn
Number of pages: 261
Description: Kenzaburō Ōe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing "reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of the values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other...[His] heroes have been expelled from the certainty of childhood, into a world that bears no relation to their past"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: The day he himself shall wipe my tears away.; title: Prize stock.; title: Teach us to outgrow our madness.; title: Aghwee the sky monster.