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Kōbō Abe (1924–1993)

Autor(a) de The Woman in the Dunes

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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

The Woman in the Dunes (1964) 3,052 exemplares
The Box Man (1973) 967 exemplares
The Face of Another (1966) 748 exemplares
The Ruined Map (1967) 648 exemplares
The Ark Sakura (1984) 477 exemplares
Secret Rendezvous (1977) 460 exemplares
Inter Ice Age 4 (1959) 372 exemplares
Kangaroo Notebook (1991) 361 exemplares
Beyond the Curve (1991) 216 exemplares
Friends: A Play (1967) 72 exemplares
Woman in the Dunes [1964 film] (1964) — Writer — 43 exemplares
Beasts Head for Home (2017) 35 exemplares
Three Plays by Kobo Abe (1993) 35 exemplares
The Wall (1951) 26 exemplares
The Unrelated Death (1964) 16 exemplares
Die Erfindung des R 62 (1974) 12 exemplares
Toverkrijt (1989) 12 exemplares
De Japanse herfst : moderne Japanse verhalen (1989) — Autor — 11 exemplares
Idéntico al ser humano (2010) 8 exemplares
Kastimees (2023) 5 exemplares
Kutu Adam (1993) 5 exemplares
The Laughing Moon (1975) 5 exemplares
Just Like Humans (1967) 5 exemplares
Encuentros secretos (2013) 5 exemplares
Cutie and the Beast Vol. 4 (2023) 4 exemplares
Baskasinin Yüzü (2018) 3 exemplares
Tre metamorfosi: racconti (1996) 3 exemplares
Kanguru Defteri (2017) 2 exemplares
League of the Hungry (2006) 2 exemplares
Four Stories (1973) 2 exemplares
Virane Harita (2019) 1 exemplar
" Izbrannoe". 1 exemplar
Kobieta z wydm 1 exemplar
Neljas jääaeg 1 exemplar
Избранное 1 exemplar
跳蚤奔月 1 exemplar
箱子裹的男人 1 exemplar
De droomsoldaat 1 exemplar
砂の女 1 exemplar
箱男 1 exemplar
Stony Eyes (1960) 1 exemplar
反劇的人間 (1979) 1 exemplar
Inter Ice age 4 1 exemplar
La mujer de arena 1 exemplar
Zena u pesku (2009) 1 exemplar
榎本武揚 (中公文庫) (1967) 1 exemplar
The dream escape (1977) 1 exemplar
Červený kokon 1 exemplar
L'arca Ciliegio (1997) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997) — Contribuidor — 226 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection (1992) — Contribuidor — 202 exemplares
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 162 exemplares
The Road to Science Fiction #6: Around The World (1998) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
One World of Literature (1992) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
New Writing in Japan (1972) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Murder in Japan: Japanese Stories of Crime and Detection (1987) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Vestenfor måne : 56 fantastiske fortellinger fra hele verden (1972) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
S-Fマガジン 1966年11月号 (通巻88号) (1966) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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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)

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Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, seeks a rare beetle in the desert. The day ends, and he is lost in the sand dunes. In desperation, he agrees to assistance from another man who finds the entomologist shelter for the night. He is taken to a sand cliff from which he is lowered by rope ladder to a small house, partially covered by sand and inhabited by a lone woman. In the morning, the rope is gone but the woman remains.

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)
 
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SqueakyChu | 64 outras críticas | Dec 8, 2023 |
Psychologický román s prvky sci-fi je příběhem vědce, jemuž výbuch v laboratoři znetvořil tvář. Přes úsilí lékařů zůstává zohyzděn, takže se mezi lidmi pohybuje jen s obvazem
 
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PDSS | 14 outras críticas | Oct 11, 2023 |
Collapsed [...] like a marionette whose strings had been cut,


Abe is doing a couple interesting things here:
-Some play in the Mask Face relationship. Mask as a kind of face; face subordinated (in the animistic sense) to the mask; mask as the real self (simulacrum) and the self which is already a kind of mask.
-An attempt at technical detail that is almost believable (though reads as juvenilia compared to later accomplishments in The Box Man).
-Wearing a mask so he can date his wife, condemning her for dating him (scarred face), condemning her for dating him (mask face), condemning her for lack of prurience, condemning her for imagined prurience. condemning her for not seeing through the mask, but utterly destroyed when he realizes that she has seen through it/leaves him.

After a long time, I picked up this book, blindly, and thought, "this guy sounds like Kōbō Abe when he writes about women," so at least it can be said he has a style.
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Joe.Olipo | 14 outras críticas | Sep 19, 2023 |
Non è la sabbia che scorre, ma forse lo stesso scorrere è la sabbia. Non riesco a spiegarmi bene.

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La respirazione, il camminare, la peristalsi dei visceri, i programmi quotidiani di ricerca, le domeniche ogni sette giorni, gli esami di fine stagione ogni quattro mesi, non solo non arrivano a darci la pace, ma ci incitano nuovamente al tran tran della vita. Di giorno in giorno, poi, si aumenta la quantità del fumo, e, dopo i sogni in cui si cerca affannosamente, con una donna dalle unghie sporche, un posto tranquillo e nascosto agli occhi dei curiosi, infine ci si accorge di essere intossicati, e poi, ricordandosi a un tratto del firmamento sostenuto dai cicli dei movimenti ellittici estremamente monotoni, e delle dune comandate dalla lunghezza d'onda di 1/8 di mm, improvvisamente ci si rende conto della situazione reale.

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E resto sempre perplesso dal fatto che Sisifo ritrovi sempre il masso ad aspettarlo...
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NewLibrary78 | 64 outras críticas | Jul 22, 2023 |

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