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Kenzaburo Oe

おおえ けんざぶろう

Oe Kenzaburo

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1935-01-31 (Uchiko, Kita-Uwa District, Ehime Prefecture, Japan)
死没
2023-03-03 (Tokyo, Japan)
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese

経歴

職業
Novelist
活動期間
1958年〜

学歴

University of Tokyo
Faculty of Letters / Department of Western Literature
学位: 文学士
期間: 1953-1958
卒業年: 1958
国: Japan

受賞歴

Noma Literary Prize
1973
対象作品: The Flood Reaches My Soul
主催: Noma Literary Foundation
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Flood Reaches My Soul

1973年 Literary Fiction, Novel

Ōki Yūgyo, living with his intellectually disabled son Jin in a nuclear shelter, communes with the spirits of trees and whales through meditation. After meeting the 'Free Navigation Corps' of young social outcasts and educating them through readings, a violent confrontation with riot police ensues. As the shelter fills with water, Yūgyo bids farewell to the spirits, declaring 'All is well!' before the end.

ImaginationCatastropheParent-Child BondCommunion with Nature

作風・主題

文体
Metaphorical descriptionAllegorical expressionPhilosophical dialogue
頻出モチーフ
WaterWhalesTreesBirdsong

評価・遺産

Recognized as one of Ōe's representative works and an important catastrophe novel in contemporary Japanese literature.

引用

  • All is well!
    出典: The Flood Reaches My Soul (1973年)

豆知識

  • The title is derived from a Psalm in the Old Testament.
  • The character Jin is based on Oe's real son Hikari Ōe.