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Ok /lit/

I've been thinking about buying some books by Kenzaburo Oe but I wanted to get your opinion on him first before I bought anything. Do you guys like him/love him/hate him?

>> No.1612068

I'm sorry, here we just make threads about the same 10 books over and over again, and we only read fantasy/scifi books we bought at walmart. So your question about a contemporary japanese writer is going to get no replies other than this probably.

>> No.1612071

>>1612068
What a worthless post

>> No.1612073

>>1612071

What an equally worthless post.

>> No.1612078

yes. he's quite good.
though I would ask why you chose Oe - what spurred you to this decision? He's not someone you pick out of the blue, not as an English reader, anyway.

>> No.1612079

I've read Hiroshima Notes and Aghwee the Sky Monster out of the Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness collection. The latter is definitely my more favorite, though the first one is extremely informative and interesting (I'm just not normally a non-fiction kind of person). I haven't read his A Personal Matter yet, but I've been told it's not the best place to start with him.

Which books are you thinking of getting?

>> No.1612082

>>1612073
this post is chock full of value.

>> No.1612085

>>1612073
No its worth is in that it tells you that your post is worthless in the hopes that you will take that into consideration and try to make less similarly worthless posts

>> No.1612089

>>1612079

See I don't know I was going to ask here. My friend is reading The Silent Cry for a class and recommended it to me because he knows I am a fan books with a existential/depressing tone.

>> No.1612091

>>1612078
I'd like to know this too. Were you going through Nobel Prize winners or something like that?

>> No.1612104

>>1612089

If you are looking for dirty people, suicide, retards, intestines hanging out, floating corpses, and all around grotesque realism then look no further.
(I took a class where I had to read a bunch of his stuff)

>> No.1612115

>>1612089
>>1612104

I didn't think he was read that much, I'm pleasantly surprised to hear of anyone actually teaching his work.

>> No.1612133

Interesting topic OP, usually the japanese lit discussion consists of nothing but Haruki Murakami fans blowing each other.

>> No.1612147

Oh shiii a thread that is actually interesting that is also completely free of tripfags. Can anyone recommend other good japanese authors?

>> No.1612157

>>1612104
Also people that hang themselves with a cucumber up their ass.

>> No.1612165

>>1612157
Any reason why?

>> No.1612172

>>1612147
Shohei Ooka
Kobo Abe

...and people forget that the current governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, wrote an fucking AMAZING book called "Crazed Fruit" that was made into an equally amazing movie.

>> No.1612184

>>1612147
Yukio Mishima, Ryu Murakami

>> No.1612203

i liked that story about a guy who rides buses so he can cum on girls dresses

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>>1612147
Picture related!

>> No.1612276

>>1612165
I don't remember exactly if there was an explanation of why the guy decided the hang himself with a cucumber up his ass.

>> No.1613085

bump

>> No.1613216

I read A Personal Matter in college, can't remember anything about it though, I think it's about a guy who wants to kill his retarded infant. I also read the short story human sheep which was about occupational troops in Japan demoralizing citizens on a bus. It's probably been three years since I read any of the stuff and it strikes me like a faint shadow but my appraisal would be, it's aight. Nothing spectacular or gripping but decent lit.