This might have been the best book I could read to start my interaction with Nobel laureate Kenzeburo Oe, or the worst, I am not clear yet. Why the worst? Well, it spends a lot of time tracing and retracing other novels he’s written and tying them to his personal life. What I didn’t know going in is that several of his novels are kinds of roman a clef/autofiction and he references his personal life a lot in his fiction. But it might have been […]