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Article: The Pinch Runner Memorandum.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature (see WLT 69:1, pp. 5-16), wrote two major novels, among others, in which he deals with the fear of the possible annihilation of all humankind in a nuclear holocaust. One is the two-volume 1973 work entitled Kozui wa waga tamashii ni oyobi (The Flood Unto My Soul), and the other is The Pinch Runner Memorandum, first published in 1976 as Pinchi ra'na chosho.
Memorandum explores the violence of student street demonstrations against the renewal of the Mutual Security Treaty between the United States and Japan in late 1960s and the ensuing bloody struggles between the militant factions of the student movement. ...