Kenzaburo Oe

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994

Bibliography

Works in Japanese

A selection of novels, short stories and essays:

Shisha no ogori. – Tokyo: Bungei shunju, 1958

Memushiri kouchi. – Tokyo: Kodansha, 1958

Miru mae ni tobe. – Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1958

Nichijo seikatsu no boken. – Tokyo, 1963

Kojinteki na taiken. – Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1964

Hiroshima noto. – Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1965

Man'en gannen no futtoboru. – Tokyo: Kodansha, 1967

Warera no kyoki o iki nobiru michi o oshieyo. 1969

Okinawa noto. – Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1970

Shosetsu no hoho. – Tokyo: Iwanami Gendai Senso, 1978

Natsukashii toshi e no tegami. – Tokyo: Kodansha, 1986

M/T to mori no fushigi no monogatari. – Tokyo: Iwanami, Shoten, 1986

Chiryo no to. – Tokyo, 1990

Translations into English

The Catch // Japan Quarterly, 6:1, 1959

Lavish are the Dead // Japan Quarterly, 12:2, 1965

A Personal Matter. – New York: Grove Press, 1968; London: W&N, 1969

The Silent Cry. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1974; – London: Serpernt's Tail, 1988

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness. – New York: Grove Press, 1977 ; London : Serpent's Tail, 1989

The Catch and other War Stories. – Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, 1981

The Pinch Runner Memorandum. – New York : M.E. Sharpe, 1994

Hiroshima Notes. – Tokyo : YMCA Press, 1981. Rev. ed. 1995

Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself : the Nobel Prize speech and other lectures. – Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, 1995

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. – London ; New York : Marion Boyars, 1995

An Echo of Heaven. – Tokyo : Kodansha International, 1996

A Healing Family. – Tokyo : Kodansha International, 1996

A Quiet Life. – New York : Grove Press, 1996

Seventeen ; J : Two Novels. – New York : Blue Moon Books, 1996

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! – New York : Grove Press, 2002

Somersault. – New York : Grove Press, 2003

Critical studies

Wilson, Michiko Niikuni, The marginal world of Oe Kenzaburo : a study in themes and techniques. – Armonk, N.Y. : Sharpe, 1986

Oe and beyond : fiction in contemporary Japan / edited by Stephen Snyder and Philip Gabriel. – Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 1999

Claremont, Yasuko, The novels of Oe Kenzaburo. – London : Routledge, 2008

The Swedish Academy, 2009