Two unpublished works by Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe found
Handwritten manuscripts of two unpublished short stories written by Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe (1935-2023) around his 1957 literary debut have been found.One of the two, titled "Kurai Heya Kara no Ryoko" ("Trip From a Dark Room"), is believed to be Oe's oldest known surviving work, the University of Tokyo's Kenzaburo Oe Library said Monday.After entering the University of Tokyo in 1954, Oe made his literary debut in July 1957 while still a student, with the short stories "Lavish Are The Dead" and "Someone Else's Feet," published in literary journals.
