Kenzaburō Ōe citations (43 citations, Page 2)

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Kenzaburō Ōe: Citations en anglais

“To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.”

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Conversations with History interview (1999)

“The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.”

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p 92
Shizuka-na seikatsu (A Quiet Life) (1990)

“If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.”

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Kenzaburō Ōe livre A Personal Matter

A Personal Matter (1964)

“I don’t think young people need to see the face of the deceased.”

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Shizuka-na seikatsu (A Quiet Life) (1990)

“My mentally handicapped son Hikari was awakened by the voices of birds to the music of Bach and Mozart, eventually composing his own works. The little pieces that he first composed were full of fresh splendour and delight. They seemed like dew glittering on grass leaves. The word innocence is composed of in — "not" and nicer — "hurt", that is, "not to hurt". Hikari's music was in this sense a natural effusion of the composer's own innocence.”

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Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself (1994)

“There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn’t there? Isn’t Jesus Christ’s Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.”

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Shizuka-na seikatsu (A Quiet Life) (1990)

“In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy.”

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Paris Review interview (2007)

“We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned or disdained by a stranger on a street corner). We try not to carry these things over to tomorrow. It is not strange, therefore, that the whole human race is trying to put Hiroshima, the extreme point of human tragedy, completely out of mind.”

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Kenzaburō Ōe livre A Personal Matter

A Personal Matter (1964)

“It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.”

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Kenzaburō Ōe livre A Personal Matter

A Personal Matter (1964)

“I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our "personal matter," and society.”

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Conversations with History interview (1999)

“Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.”

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Paris Review interview (2007)

“One day Bird had approached his father with this question; he was six years old: Father, where was I a hundred years before I was born? Where will I be a hundred years after I die? Father, what will happen to me when I die? Without a word, his young father had punched him in the mouth, broke two of his teeth and bloodied his face, and Bird forgot the fear of death.”

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Kenzaburō Ōe livre A Personal Matter

A Personal Matter (1964)

“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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Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself (1994)

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