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This study targets Ōe Kenzaburō's “In Late Style”　which is published in 2013. The book review at the time of the publication has many things which paid attention to the catastrophe in the novel. But I considered Ōe's consciousness of later years and ‘Late Style’ which appeared in this novel. Ōe begins to be conscious of his death since he exceeded 50 years old. The remark ‘Last Novel’ stands out at the same time as beginning to be conscious of his lateness, too. This phenomenon is corresponding to time when Edward Said started the research on artist's ‘Late Style’. In the beginning of the novel, the narrator does one's own commentary. He is talking considering Said's “On Late Style”, having made to the title of “In Late Style”, and use in the meaning ‘living in the late style’. However, the term ‘Late Style’ used in “In Late Style” is different from it of Said. What Said analyzed in “On Late Style” is the new style that a great artist acquired in the later years of the life. Their late works show non-productive productivity that refuses any harmony and integration, and show the tendency to which the art that has been constructed till then destroys the whole. Such non-reconciliation and the denial of ‘Late Style’ are assumed to bring catastrophe with an extreme tension. However, ‘catastrophe committee’ in the Ōe's “In Late Style” tends to pay attention to the way of life in later years than the late works. Only a catastrophe situation is drawn in “In Late Style”, and there are not characters who receive the catastrophe either. In addition, Ōe of the writer does not fall in a catastrophe by this novel. This work everyday of old writer who lives a situation that is expected catastrophe itself has become a ‘Late Style’. It is to imagine his catastrophe while he reviews the lateness of people who died before ‘3.11’ every day and interpret past own work again.