A Personal Matter

Synopsis

Kenzaburo oe, the winner of the 1994 nobel prize for literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-world war ii writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The swedish academy lauded oe for his "poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.