Ōe, Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness (1977)

Kenzaburō Ōe.
Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels.
Translated by John Nathan.
New York: Grove Press, 1977, 1994.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; GoodReads.com.

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Author Information :

• Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023), Wikipedia English.
• 大江 健三郎 (1935–2023), Wikipedia Japan.
• 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, Wikipedia English.
• Kenzaburō Ōe, "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself," Nobel Lecture, 07 December 1994.
• Kenzaburo Oe, Grove Atlantic (publishes many English translations of Oe's works in the USA).
• Search for works by Kenzaburō Ōe, Internet Archive.
• Kenzaburō Ōe, GoodReads.com.
• Japanese literature: Postwar literature (1945–onwards), Wikipedia English.
• 日本の近現代文学史 [History of modern Japanese literature], Wikipedia Japan.
• Postwar Japan, Wikipedia English.
• 連合国軍占領期後の日本 [Japan after the Allied Occupation], Wikipedia Japan.

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Translator Information :

• John Nathan (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
• John Nathan, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California Santa Barbara.
• John Nathan, GoodReads.com.
• John Nathan. Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004.
  [Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
• John Nathan. Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
• John Nathan, "Kenzaburo Oe: Mapping the Land of Dreams," Japan Quarterly, vol. 42, num. 1, January-March 1995.
• Preston L. Houser, "Awakening the Goddess Within: An Interview with Mayumi Oda [conducted Summer 1999]," Kyoto Journal, 02 October 2011.
  (Mayumi Oda was the first wife of John Nathan.)

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Contents of Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels :

1. "The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away," 1974.
2. "Prize Stock," 1958.
   • 飼育 (小説), "Shiiku" (Breeding / Cultivation / Care), English translation title "Prize Stock," 1958.
     (The 1957 date given by English Wikipedia differs from Wikipedia Japan's 1958 which I consider more authoritative on the topic of Japanese authors.)
   • Won the Akutagawa Prize [芥川龍之介賞] for the first half of 1958.
   • The translation of "Prize Stock" by John Nathan was reprinted in :
     The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories, Edited by Theodore W. Goossen, Oxford University Press, 1997, 2010.
     [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, 1997; Amazon.com, 2010.]
     My post for the Oxford anthology is here.
3. "Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness," 1969.
4. "Aghwee the Sky Monster," 1964.

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