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Postmodern canary
Jaffrey, Zia | September 30, 1996 issue

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The article focuses on the novel "An Echo of Heaven," by Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe. "An Echo of Heaven", first published in Japan in 1989, the Oe of "A Personal Matter" has matured and looks back at his younger self through the eroticized lens of a woman named Marie. The novel embeds the readers in Oe's personal blend of genres, and opens with a letter. The Marie described has died and Oe is collaborating with the letter-writer on a film about her life, which will be shown "on a sheet" in a Mexican village, or on the cooperative farm where she last worked, "devoting herself to the health of Indians and mestizos."

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ECHO of Heaven, An (Book); OE, Kenzaburo, 1935-; WOMEN & erotica; FICTION; LETTERS; INDIANS
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