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Episode 483 - Japan, the Beautiful, the Ambiguous, Part 2

Episode 483 - Japan, the Beautiful, the Ambiguous, Part 2

History of Japan · Isaac Meyer

May 5, 202336m 49s

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Show Notes

Oe Kenzaburo is about as different a writer as you can think of from Kawabata Yasunari, and yet he's Japan's second ever Nobel laureate in literature. What sort of concerns defined his work, and what can we learn from looking at him in conjunction with Kawabata?

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