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Teach us to outgrow our madness : four short novels / by Kenzaburo Oe ; translated [from the Japanese] and with an introd. by John Nathan

By:

Oe, Kenzaburo, 1935-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Grove Press , 1977.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 261 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780802151858

Subject(s):

Japan -- --Social life and customs -- --Fiction

DDC classification:

FIC OE

LOC classification:

PZ4.O287 Te 1977 PL858.E14

Contents:

The day he himself shall wipe my tears away.--Prize stock.--Teach us to outgrow our madness.--Aghwee the sky monster.

Summary: 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 the 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.

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The day he himself shall wipe my tears away.--Prize stock.--Teach us to outgrow our madness.--Aghwee the sky monster.

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 the 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.

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