NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE KENZABURO OÉ DIES

Japanese writer Nobel Prize winner in Literature 1994, Kenzaburo Oé, passed away last 3 de marzo. This was announced by its publisher, Kodansha, In a press release released on 13 de marzo. The organization asked for respect for the privacy of the author's relatives and noted that they would soon honor him in public..

Oé visits the Nanjing Massacre Memorial, caused by Japanese troops in China.

Born in 1935 en la isla de Shikoku, Oé was marked by Japan's participation in World War II and its subsequent reconstruction. To narrate all this, He chose a style that was very critical of the society of his time and was committed to anti-Americanism., pacifism and attitudes against nuclear energy. These ideas made him a great follower of Western counterculture and Jean-Paul Sartre..

All of this appears in his first novel, 'Pull out the seeds and shoot the children', which shows helpless teenagers brutalized by their education in a reform school and the Second World War. This work published in 1958 He inaugurated his self-styled literature as "grotesque realism" and his consideration as a left-wing radical in his native country..

The most intimate part of his work was based on his experiences with his son, who is autistic and suffered from hydrocephalus. This is how he transcribed it in his autobiographical work 'A personal question', which tells the life of the father of a child with brain health problems. This publication was its first translation into Spanish.

The Japanese creator also approached Latin American culture, since he was a guest professor at the College of Mexico in 1976. Además, his book 'The game of contemporaneity', which reviews the history of his country has influences from 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', by Gabriel García Márquez, and 'Dream of a Sunday afternoon in the central Alameda', by the muralist Diego Rivera.

his unwavering faith in God and the numerous trips that brought him into contact with diverse cultures and to settle in Santa Eulària

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