Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels by Oe, Kenzaburo - 1977

Grove Press, 1977. Paperback. Good.

Nice spine and very minimal edge-wear. Minimal underlining and notes in ink affecting around 60 pages. Designed by Steven A, Baron. Cover illustration by Mayumi Oda Nathan and cover design by Kenneth R. Deardoff. Includes an introduction by Nathan, which begins, 'I met Kenzaburo Oe in 1964, at Yukio Mishima's Christmas Eve party. I was there because I was Mishima's translator at the time. Oe was there because Mishima had invited everyone who mattered that year, from boxers to drag queens, and because Oe's vanity and maybe his country-cousin curiosity had drawn him to the lights.' 261 pp. Fiction.

New York. 1977. Grove Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394413385. Translated from the Japanese and with an introduction by John Nathan. 261 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration: Mayumi Oda Nathan. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Oe is acknowledged to be the be the most important writer to have emerged in in Japan since World War Il, and these four novels explain why his passionate, original vision, powered by an astonishing energy, speaks for the new generation that has grown up in Japan since the War. The earliest of his stories included here, Prize Stock, is an extraordinary tale about the strange relationship between a Japanese boy and a captured black American flyer in a Japanese mountain village during the War. It was for this short novel that Oe won the coveted Akutagawa Prize while he was still a student at Tokyo University. The short novel which supplies the title for this book, Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness, tells of the close relationship… Read More

New York: Grove Press [0-394-41338-5] [1977], 1st edition. (Hardcover) 261pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Includes Aghwee the Sky Monster, The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock & Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness. Translated with introduction by John Nathan. (Fiction, Short Stories).