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Oe, Kenzaburo was born on January 31, 1935 in Shikoku, Japan.
( Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 1...)
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated in wartime to a remote mountain village where they are feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, the villagers flee, blocking the boys inside the deserted town. Their brief attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love, and tribal valor is doomed in the face of death and the adult nightmare of war.
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(The first novel by Japan's most celebrated writing, Nip T...)
The first novel by Japan's most celebrated writing, Nip The Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of fifteen teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime. The narrator who acts as nominal leader of the small band, his younger brother and their comrades are all delinquent outcasts, feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, their hosts abandon them and flee, then blockade them inside the empty village, together with a young Korean, an army deserter and a girl evacuee. However, the boys' brief, doomed attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love and tribal valour inevitably fails with the reflux of death and the adult nightmare of war. This novel was translated from Japanese to English language by Paul St John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama. The novel's original copyright was 1958 by Kenzaburo Oe. This edition was published by Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd., London and New York, 1995.
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("Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids" recounts the exploits of f...)
"Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids" recounts the exploits of fifteen teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime. The boys are treated as delinquent outcasts - feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, their hosts abandon them and flee, blockading them inside the empty village. The boys' brief and doomed attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love and tribal valour fails in the face of death and the adult nightmare of war. 'An angry, engrossing novel...It is an extraordinary first novel, an amazing achievement for a writer of any age. Myth-like and almost painfully suspenseful, "Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids" has much in common with both "Lord of the Flies" and "The Plague"...His uncompromising honesty is what gives the story its universality and what makes its grim ending such a persuasive warning' - "New York Times". 'No Japanese novelist has ever written more brilliantly than Oe about the division that exists in the soul of his country' - "Daily Telegraph". 'A fiercely original book..." Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids" presents a complete and compelling world - a world powerfully remembered, powerfully imagined' - "Boston Globe". 'Dark, elliptical and austere...His novels are quite unlike those of any other Japanese novelist' - "The Times".
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( Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Li...)
Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Oe for his "poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." His most popular book, A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose Utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.”Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor
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( Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshim...)
Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of those who cared for them, both immediately after the atomic blast and in the years that follow, reveals the horrific extent of the devastation. It is a heartrending portrait of a ravaged city the human face” in the midst of nuclear destruction.
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(The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two...)
The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan. While one brother tries to sort out the after-effects of a friend's suicide and the birth of a retarded son, the other embarks on a quixotic mission to incite an uprising among the local youth. Oe's description of this brother's messianic struggle to save a disintegrating local culture and economy from the depredations of a Korean wheeler-dealer called "The Emperor of the Supermarkets" is as chillingly pertinent today as it was when first published in 1967. Powerful and daring, The Silent Cry is a thoroughly compelling classic of world literature.
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( These four novels display Oe’s passionate and original ...)
These four novels display Oe’s passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other. The earliest of his novels included here, Prize Stock, reveals the strange relationship between a Japanese boy and a captured black American pilot in a Japanese village. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness tells of the close relationship between an outlandishly fat father and his mentally defective son, Eeyore. Aghwee the Sky Monster is about a young man’s first job chaperoning a banker’s son who is haunted by the ghost of a baby in a white nightgown. The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away is the longest piece in this collection and Oe’s most disturbing work to date. The narrator lies in a hospital bed waiting to die of a liver cancer that he has probably imagined, wearing a pair of underwater goggles covered with dark cellophane.
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( These four novels display Oe’s passionate and original ...)
These four novels display Oe’s passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other. The earliest of his novels included here, Prize Stock, reveals the strange relationship between a Japanese boy and a captured black American pilot in a Japanese village. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness tells of the close relationship between an outlandishly fat father and his mentally defective son, Eeyore. Aghwee the Sky Monster is about a young man’s first job chaperoning a banker’s son who is haunted by the ghost of a baby in a white nightgown. The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away is the longest piece in this collection and Oe’s most disturbing work to date. The narrator lies in a hospital bed waiting to die of a liver cancer that he has probably imagined, wearing a pair of underwater goggles covered with dark cellophane.
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(A remarkable portrait of the inexpressible bond between a...)
A remarkable portrait of the inexpressible bond between a famous writer and his cipher of a son, this magnificent novel of startling candor is from a Nobel Prize-winning Japanese master. As the man struggles to understand his family, he must evaluate himself as he deals with parenting a disabled child.
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( Wise and illuminating, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New ...)
Wise and illuminating, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts him with the information that this child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing things -- behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead, even brandishing a knife at his mother -- and K, given to retreating from reality into abstraction, looks for answers in his lifelong love of William Blake's poetry. As K struggles to understand his family and assess his responsibilities within it, he must also reevaluate himself -- his relationship with his own father, the political stances he has taken, the duty of artists and writers in society. A remarkable portrait of the inexpressible bond between this father and his damaged son, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is the work of an unparalleled writer at his sparkling best.
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Oe, Kenzaburo was born on January 31, 1935 in Shikoku, Japan.
Bachelor, Tokyo University, 1959.
Visiting professor Colegio de México, 1976, University California, Berkely, 1989.
( Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Li...)
( Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 1...)
(The first novel by Japan's most celebrated writing, Nip T...)
(A remarkable portrait of the inexpressible bond between a...)
( Wise and illuminating, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New ...)
(The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two...)
(This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of...)
("Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids" recounts the exploits of f...)
( Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshim...)
( These four novels display Oe’s passionate and original ...)
( These four novels display Oe’s passionate and original ...)
(Book by Kenzaburo Oe)
(NY 1977 1st Grove. Translated and with an introduction by...)
(NY 1977 1st Grove. Translated and with an introduction by...)
(A Personal Matter)
(A Personal Matter)
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Author: (works translated into English) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, 1958 (Akutagawa prize, Society Promotion Japanese Literature, 1958), Seventeen, 1961, J, 1963, A Personal Matter, 1964 (Shinchosha Literature prize, 1964), Hiroshima Notes, 1965, The Silent Cry, 1967 (Jun'ichiro Tanizaki prize, 1967), Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, 1969, The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, 1972, The Pinch Runner Memorandum, 1976, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age, 1983 (Jiro Osaragi prize, 1983), An Echo of Heaven, 1989, A Quiet Life, 1990, A Healing Family, 1995, Somersault, 1999, The Changeling, 2000, numerous works published in Japanese and other languages.
Married Itami Yukari, 1960. 1 child 3.