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Occasional Paper No. 18 Nobel Laureate 1994 ISBN 1-881865-18-5

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ABSTRACT:
Japanese writer and Nobel laureate Kenzaburô Ôe delivered the first in a series of lectures established at the Center for Japanese Studies to honor political theorist Masao Maruyama. In his Maruyama Lecture, "The Language of Masao Maruyama," he focuses on the problem of political responsibility in the modern world, taking Maruyama’s major work as his point of departure. In a second (unrelated) lecture, "From the Beginning to the Present, and Facing the End: The Case of One Japanese Writer," Kenzaburô Ôe offers an account of his own development as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Kenzaburo Oe, "On Politics and Literature: Two Lectures by Kenzaburo Oe" (April 1, 1999). Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. Occasional Papers. Paper 18.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/townsend/occpapers/18