Kōbō Abe (1924–1993)
Autor(a) de The Woman in the Dunes
About the Author
Kobo Abe is the pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe, who was born in Tokyo, Japan on March 7 1924. He was brought up in Manchuria where he lived with his father, a doctor of the hosipital attached to the Imperial Medical Colledge of Manchuria. In elementary school, he was educated in the experimental way, in mostrar mais which a teacher trained children to debating and rapid reading. Abe went back to Tokyo and went to Sejo Koko High School, a famous private school. He was later admitted to the faculty of medicine of Tokyo University. In 1944, Abe heard that Japan would lose the war before long and he forged a medical certificate to get home to Manchuria. He earned his medical degree in 1948, but never practiced. After graduation he began his writing career and became a member of a literary group led by Kiyoteru Hamada. Often compared to Kafka , he treated the contemporary human predicament in a realistic yet symbolic style. In 1951 he got the Akutagawa Award by his first masterpiece, Kabe (The Walls). Among Abe's novels are Woman in the Dunes, published in 1962 and made into a film in 1964, and his best-known work, Secret Rendezvous. His plays include Friends, published in 1967. The first of his short stories to appear in English were collected in Beyond the Curve, 1944-66. Abe died in 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Kōbō Abe
Historia de las pulgas que viajaron a la luna (y otros cuentos de ficción científica) (2013) 9 exemplares
Härra S. Karma kuritöö : [jutustus] 2 exemplares
The Life of a Poet [short story] 2 exemplares
無関係な死・時の崖 1 exemplar
WOMAN IN THE DUNES. THE SCREENPLAY. 1 exemplar
" Izbrannoe". 1 exemplar
" CHetvertyĭ lednikovyĭ period. Totaloskop." 1 exemplar
i gynaika tis ammou / η γυναίκα της άμμου 1 exemplar
Kobieta z wydm 1 exemplar
Całkiem jak człowiek 1 exemplar
Neljas jääaeg 1 exemplar
Избранное 1 exemplar
跳蚤奔月 1 exemplar
砂丘之女及其他 1 exemplar
箱子裹的男人 1 exemplar
"Biblioteka sovremennoĭ fantastiki".( Tom2) 1 exemplar
De droomsoldaat 1 exemplar
砂の女 1 exemplar
გამყინვარების მეოთხე პერიოდი / ტოტალოსკოპი 1 exemplar
箱男 1 exemplar
Woman from the sands 1 exemplar
Inter Ice age 4 1 exemplar
La mujer de arena 1 exemplar
La mujer de la arena 1 exemplar
幽霊はここにいるどれい狩り = yurehakokonirudorekari 1 exemplar
Moteris smėlynuose: Svetimas veidas 1 exemplar
The Internal Boundary 内なる边境 1 exemplar
Červený kokon 1 exemplar
Sieviete smiltīs ; Svešā seja : [romāni] 1 exemplar
Женщина в Песках 1 exemplar
第四間氷期 [Daiyon kanpyōki] 1 exemplar
Ceturtais ledus laikmets : romāns 1 exemplar
زن در ریگ روان 1 exemplar
Чужое лицо Сожженная карта Человек-ящик 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Contribuidor — 187 exemplares
自然読本 夢・眠り 夜明かしする人悩む人、夢見る人は眠る人 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
石の文学館 ――鉱物の眠り、砂の思考 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
日本SFベスト集成〈1975〉 (1984年) (徳間文庫) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Abe, Kōbō
- Nome legal
- Abe, Kimifusa
- Outros nomes
- 安部公房
- Data de nascimento
- 1924-03-07
- Data de falecimento
- 1993-01-22
- Localização do túmulo
- Kamikawa Reien, 1520 Kamikawa-machi, Hachioji City, Tokyo, 192-0151, Japan
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Japan
- Local de nascimento
- Tokyo, Japan
- Local de falecimento
- Chofu-shi, Tokyo, Japan
- Locais de residência
- Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Tokyo, Japan - Educação
- University of Tokyo (MD | 1948)
- Ocupações
- poet
novelist
playwright
businessman
inventor - Relações
- Teshigahara, Hiroshi (collaborator)
Mishima, Yukio (friend) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1992)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1992)
Membros
Discussions
The Box Man by Kobo Abe em Author Theme Reads (Maio 2015)
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe em Author Theme Reads (Maio 2013)
The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abé em Author Theme Reads (Maio 2012)
The Face of Another by Kobo Abe em Author Theme Reads (Abril 2012)
Críticas
Listas
Existentialism (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 93
- Also by
- 14
- Membros
- 7,758
- Popularidade
- #3,140
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 138
- ISBN
- 234
- Línguas
- 21
- Marcado como favorito
- 56
The story was terrifying and engrossing all at once. It had the essence of one person being alone, yet not being alone; disappearing and yet not disappearing. Thinking of a person placed in a captive situation, it made me question whether it would be better to remain aloof or to befriend a captor. Presenting just as many questions as answers, this book turned out to be an incredible mind trip. I kept on trying to figure out what it all meant, whether it was a metaphor for anything at all or just a bizarre tale meant for entertainment. It was a story, complete with perfectly situated pen-and-ink drawings, about the meaning of being held captive and containing sequences of events and scenery which made for surreal and fascinating reading.… (mais)