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  • Essay / Kenzaburo Ōe's Paths to Grotesque Symbolism in Japan

    His own son, Hikari, was born with a herniated brain; She was advised to let her child be, because if he lived, there was a strong possibility that he would be mentally impaired. However, he chose to raise his son, and although his son was disabled, it never diminished the attention he gave to him. In the article An Interview with Kenzaburō Ōe, Ōe believes that "literature should address the theme of people ostracized in the family and in society...literature should create a model of the human being and his environment in which no one 'is discriminated against'. In A Personal Matter, the birth of Bird's son causes hysteria in everyone who sees it. Even before Bird sees his son, doctors call him "the commodity," creating the feeling that he is so foreign that he won't even be labeled as "good." ».