I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. … - Kenzaburo Oe

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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

Kenzaburo Oe

I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.

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I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our personal matter, and society.

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