text: This author criticized the "vagueness" of a lecture about his country's beauty in his own Nobel lecture discussing his country's "ambiguousness".
full_question: This author criticized the "vagueness" of a lecture about his country's beauty in his own Nobel lecture discussing his country's "ambiguousness". In a novel by this man, the protagonist humiliates himself at a punching machine game, and is then beaten by a gang of boys. This author wrote a novel whose original-language title references a peasant uprising in 1860, which Takashi uses to stir a riot against "the Emperor", a Korean supermarket owner. In a novel by this man, Bird fantasizes about traveling to Africa to escape his brain hernia-afflicted son, inspired by the birth of Hikari, this author's own son. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Silent Cry and A Personal Matter.
first_sentence: This author criticized the "vagueness" of a lecture about his country's beauty in his own Nobel lecture discussing his country's "ambiguousness".
raw_answer: Kenzaburo Oe