Structural Analysis of a Short Story
Ōe Kenzaburō's "Leap Before You Look"
By William Wetherall
Submitted as a class report
with a full translation of "Leap Before You Look"
in Oriental Languages 249, Winter Quarter 1973, instructor Frank Motofuji
Department of Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley
Typescript report, 25 pages
Typescript translation, 73 pages including title page
Written in Winter Quarter of 1973
First posted 10 May 2023
Last updated 28 May 2023
NAVIGATION
Returning to school
After Mishima's and Kawabata's suicides
My first graduate school report
What I think now of what I thought then
Ōe Kenzaburō and "Sheep" (1972)
The original report with annotations
PROLOGUE
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1st of 7 pages of "Ōe Kenzaburō and "Sheep"
written for Falll 1972 Japanese literature course
taught by Frank T. Motofuji, Department of Oriental Languages,
University of California, Berkeley
Yosha Bunko scan
Structural Analysis of a Short Story
Ōe Kenzaburō's "Leap Before You Look"
REVISEThe following report, Ōe Kenzaburō and Sheep, was the first paper I wrote after returning to Berkeley as a graduate student in the fall of 1972. I wrote the report for a course on reading Japanese fiction in Japanese, taught by Frank T. Motofuji, who had published an English translation of "Ningen no hitsuji" (人間の羊) as "Sheep" rather than "Human sheep".