Kenzaburo ōe: The Counterattack Of The "Marginal

Kenzaburo Oe,the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994,astonished the reading public by his vivid imagination and uncompromising examination of human nature. Therefore,hisliteratures are regarded as a part of the world literature. Oe's writings are impacted by Satre's existentialism,he also alludes literature archetypes of established author from world literature such as Dante,Yeats,Blake,Auden,Rabeleis and Mikhail Bakhtin. His "Marginal" characteristic originated from these impacts.Tlu's article consists of five sectionss altogether. It tries to discuss the characteristic of Oe'sliterature with cultural connotations. The first section is prologue.The second section reviews Kenzaburo Oe's life and literature career simply.The third section studies Oe's "marginal " characteristic and the cause of this characteristic detailedly.The forth section discusses the actual exertion of the "marginal "consciousness in Oe'sworks. Oe's literatures are impacted by Mikhail Bakhtin's theorization of Rabeleis. He tries to destroy the traditional Japanese literatures and languages by grotesque realism and linguisticviolence. The famous Japanese scholar Sanroku Yoshida indicated that one of Oe's literature characteristics is his bizarre style. Because of it,the readers can found buffoonery,grotesquery and bizarre depictions and characters in his works,at the same time,he uses the language different from the traditional Japan language,exaggerate,distorting and ironical,all these reflect the intense"marginal "consciousness. In addition,Oe models the Utopian world in his works from thehumanism in order to depict the marginal,which reveal his considerations pf the real world and attentions of the fate of the human beings.The fifth section is the conclusion. It considers the deep-seated aspect of Oe's "marginal " consciousness in order to reflect the world meaning of it.So,We can say that,in the contemporary world literature,Oe's literature world is unfoldedas a vagarious world which interweaves with macro/micro,center/marginal in which he reflects the most abundant and vastest world of human nature from his purest personal matter. Establishedin the marginal culture,Oe tries to probe into the core of the contemporary literature about the human being's existent conditions and the contemporary crisis. Whether depicting the politicalcrisis or the crisis in the nuclear era or the ideal world,6e indicates how he developed the living place and created the ideal exist patterns of transition between the Marginal and the Center.