On Politics and Literature, Two Lectures

The language of Masao Maruyama -- From the beginning to the present, and facing the end: The case of one Japanese writer.
Japanese writer and Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe delivered the first in a series of lectures established at the Center for Japanese Studies to honor political theorist Masao Maruyama.
In a second (unrelated) lecture, “From the Beginning to the Present, and Facing the End: The Case of One Japanese Writer, Oe offers an account of his own development as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction.