Gii

K's letters are addressed to the hermaphrodite Big Brother Gii, whom Oe later identified as the composite of all the people who had guided him as his 'patron.'

Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer 2007

As K's sympathetic critic, counselor, and correspondent, Gii embraces the myths and legends of the village in the valley as real, and yearns for the resurrection of 'The One Who Destroys.'

Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer 2007

Named New Big Brother Gii in the trilogy, the son is the last repository and expositor of his village's oral tradition.

Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer 2007

He is anointed as the successor of the original Big Brother Gii during the village matriarch's cremation, when the bird that holds her departing soul in its beak transfers the soul to him.

Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer 2007

Cry, for example, occurs a transformation of the crime which once gave Gii ten years in prison, but also a revision of his material about the life of their ancestors.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 - Presentation Speech 1997

Brother Gii, who is presented to us as the dominant figure in the narrator's life, is thus a literary invention, a counter-figure who embodies the latter's dream of remaining in the woodland of his ancestors, reading Dante.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 - Presentation Speech 1997

In its protagonist, Frére - Gii, Oe has created a character who achieves his dream of never leaving the village in the forest on his native island of Shikoku.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 - Press Release 1994

He wouldn't have needed a minute's conversation with him to be reminded of the cue-word 'Fut-Gii'.

Caller from Eternity Brand, Kurt 1976

This man brought him greetings from 'Fut-Gii' and he was to meet him at 4: 30 a.m.

Caller from Eternity Brand, Kurt 1976

Fut-Gii had been a relatively unimportant Springer.

Caller from Eternity Brand, Kurt 1976