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...there are those writers who refuse to be seduced. And when they speak out, readers respond by the thousands. Internationally prominent novelists like Kobo Abe (Woman in the Dunes) and Kenzaburo Oe regularly sell 150,000 copies of each book. Other novelists, like Hisashi Inoue, 47, have enjoyed even greater success (see box). Shusako Endo's spare and elegant studies of Christian faith and martyrdom (Silence; The Samurai) have brought the 60-year-old author the title of the Japanese Graham Greene and made him one of the nation's most widely translated writers...
...Oe, 48, has been strongly influenced by the disruptive fantasies of Norman Mailer and Henry Miller. Oe writes about themes as disparate as nuclear catastrophe (Hiroshima Notes) and brain-damaged children (A Personal Matter) in a manner that Howard Hibbett, Harvard professor of Japanese literature, considers "the most exciting and most imaginative of the postwar novelists...
...seeing-eye tortoise" is pursued in tightly logical but ridiculous dialogue at which Robert Vaughn and Katherine McGrath, as a pair of entertainers just back from an exhibit of Magritte paintings, excel. It is, of course, a theatrical equivalent of Magritte's surrealism, a kind of trompe l'oe il of the stage, where the characters quibble with intense specificity about their own conflicting illusions...
...Supporting this amendment, Anthony G. Oe?tinger. Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, said, "In the desire to ingratiate themselves with the Neander??hals on the Faculty, the authors of those motions have put sexi?? implications into the legislative history...
...projects are representative of the diverse array of compensatory education programs across the Nation," said John F. Hughes, director of OE's Division of Compensatory Education...