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.
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Of course I would not presume to rank myself with the poetic genius Yeats. I am merely a humble follower living in a country far removed from his.Kenzaburo Oe
What was more, Japan was driven into isolation from other Asian countries, not only politically but also socially and culturally.
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From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.
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I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
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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.
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I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
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