Download or read book Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness written by Kenzaburō Ōe and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenzaburō Ōe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing "reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of the values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other ... [His] heroes have been expelled from the certainty of childhood, into a world that bears no relation to their past"--Back cover.