Ambiguous Japan: A Study on Four Lectures of Nobel Prize Winner Kenzaburō Ōe - The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities (ACAH)
In 1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, the second Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, entitled his Nobel Lecture “Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself”, dialoguing with his predecessor, Yasunari Kawabata, whose Nobel Lecture was entitled “Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself”. Confessing his quest for “ways to be of some use in the cure and reconciliation ...