More than 10,000 self-written manuscripts by Kensaburo Oe, the second Nobel Prize in Literature writer as a Japanese, have been deposited at the University of Tokyo, which is his mother's school. I am going to install.
Kenzaburo Oe has been leading the postwar Japanese literature world since the 1955's and has been highly acclaimed internationally. In 1994, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second Japanese to follow Yasunari Kawabata. ..
According to the University of Tokyo, about 50 items were deposited this time, including more than 10,000 handwritten manuscripts stored at the publisher and Mr. Oe's home, and the "galley" used for proofreading during the book publishing process. So, the deposit contract was signed on the 21st of last month.
Most of the autographed manuscripts are novel manuscripts, from early works such as "Akutagawa Prize candidate", which was published in 1957, to "contemporary games" and "" Masterpieces such as "Women Listening to the Rain Tree" and recent works are included, and expressions different from the final draft currently known can be seen.
According to the university, it is the first time that Mr. Oe's handwritten manuscripts have been sent to public institutions in a cohesive form.
In the future, the Faculty of Letters of the University of Tokyo wants to set up a facility to manage materials within the faculty and operate it as a research base for Japanese modern and contemporary literature centered on Oe's works.