Golden Rose Translation Series - People of Sex

Author: Kenzaburō ōe
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: When Kenzaburō ōe had not yet won the Nobel Prize, Japanese readers were not familiar with him, and there were almost no translations introduced in our country. This was probably mainly because his pure literary works were so profound and elusive in thought, with a mysterious and Western-style long-name structure of language expression that was "pure" to the extent that it repelled readers. As a post-war generation writer, Kenzaburō ōe, upon entering the literary scene, showed a peculiar mindset of people under post-war political suppression, creating symbolic figures in various states of mental closure, which quickly made him a flagbearer of new-era literature.