![]() ![]() ![]() But in Oe’s view, Japan is not blameless. Obviously, Oe felt a deep concern about a possible recurrence of the nuclear horrors that his country experienced and that may yet recur in a world plagued with rogue states and Vladimir Putin. ![]() Maybe the title of that last book needs little explanation, but the idea was to mark the fortieth anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. ‘The Crazy Iris’ by Kenzaburo Oe.Īmong the works for which people will remember Oe are his essays in Hiroshima Notes and a collection of short stories that he edited, The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath. It hardly does Oe justice to say that he was a deeply curious person who sought out, and met, a range of characters over the course of his life, including Kurt Vonnegut, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Mao Tse-Tung, and corresponded with many others. Five years for this subject, three years for that author. ![]() He was the second man of letters from his country to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, after Yasunari Kawabata, and was both a voracious and wide-ranging reader and an author of uncommon prolificity. It often seems that writers these days have a way of dying just as the danger that they tried hard to warn readers about grows especially severe, and this is true in the case of Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe, who passed away on March 3 at age 88. ![]()
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