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Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

Japanese - Writer | January 31, 1935 -

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

Child Born First Child First Got Us

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

Mine Novel Form Survived Sufferings

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

Country Position Japan Asia Invader

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

Peace War Morality Rebirth Principle

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Build Way Up Modern West Japan

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

War World Constitution End New Us

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

Support Constitution Reality New Now

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

Style Me Writing World Start Say

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Country Observation Two Opening

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

History Past People Moral Living

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Life Family Relationship Society Way

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

Mountain Night Reading Trees Forest

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