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The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo: A Study of Themes and Techniques
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Comments/Reviews
Comment(s): "Michiko Wilson's book is a masterpiece of interpretation. ... Michiko Wilson's book flows into the pores and veins of Oe's writing and lets us join her there, reveling in its hot stream. ... Wilson's The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo is indispensable for the understanding of this great writer, who is up there with James Joyce, Faulkner, Gunther Grass, Gabrial Garcia Marquez, Jorje Amado--the Bakhtinian yea-sayers of our era." -- Edith Turner, University of Virginia
Review(s): "[Oe] has been well served by this critic, who--not content to present thorough first readings merely--has mustered the resources of structuralist analysis to guide her (and our) way through the body of Oe's major works. ... Wilson's own first hand knowledge of contemporary Japanese culture and her ability to make minute discriminations on the basis of fluency in the language itself give this volume a singular authority and depth." -- Choice
"Oe's work is often considered characteristically Japanese, but by searching for elements that his novels and the novels of contemporary foreign writers have in common, Wilson makes an ambitious attempt to universalize his work. ... Herein lies the strength and fascination of Wilson's book, and its success in providing a new approach to the literature of Oe Kenzaburo ... Michiko Wilson can observe modern Japanese literature dispassionately from her vantage point on the far side of the Pacific. She has made excellent use of this advantage in her book, a persuasive and tightly knit account of Oe and his works." -- Japan Quarterly
"... the book contains a great deal of valuable information and provocative analysis, and deserves the reader's serious attention." -- Monumenta Nipponica
"With an expanding awareness in our field of the need to rest out various theoretical assumptions about literature on the corpus of Japanese literature, we can all welcome and benefit from the kind of work Wilson has done ... Wilson's arguments are clearly focused, her critical sense sharp and engaging." -- The Journal of Teachers of Japanese
"Oe Kenzaburo is arguably the most important novelist writing in Japan today. He has an established international reputation as well. ... Michiko Wilson's study of Oe's work, the first of its kind in English, fills an important need and is most welcome." -- World Literature Today
    
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