The Silent Cry. A Novel by Kenzaburo Oe[return][return]The Global Cry…., June 24, 2000[return][return]Let me discuss “The Silent Cry” and Oe’s work in general by first sketching in a broader view of Kenzaburo Oe’s literary interests.[return][return]No other Japanese writer has seen as deeply into...
in the early 1980s, a countryside doctor in Japan met a chief of a yakuza gang and history was made...the first of two Yakuza books to be "accidentally" written; in that a writer accidentally meets a significant organized crime figure and then characterizes that life. (the other being the one abo...