Nobel laureate Oe's manuscripts deposited at University of Tokyo

Dozens of documents, including over 10,000 pages of mostly handwritten manuscripts, by Japanese writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Kenzaburo Oe have been deposited at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters, the school said Friday.The works by the 86-year-old author consist of the manuscripts of his novels published since the 1950s as well as proof sheets, which had been stored at publishing houses such as Kodansha Ltd. and Bungei Shunju. The documents will be made available for research purposes, it said.The works include manuscripts of the 1957 piece "Lavish are the De…READ FULL ARTICLE