1. Abe Kobo Novelist and playwright. Includes bibliographies of translated and critical works, a brief biography and synopses of some of his earlier works. http://www.ibiblio.org/abekobo/

Abe (pron. "AH-bay KOH-boh") (1924-1993) stands out dramatically from his contemporaries in postwar Japanese literature. His works bear no resemblence to the subjective, ultra-realistic and autobiographical style that characterizes a great deal of postwar literature in general and postwar Japanese literature in particular. The reason for this, it has become customary to point out, probably lies in his relatively unique upbringing. Abe grew up in Manchuria, or Manchukuo as the Japanese leasehold/puppet state was known at the time. As such he presumably did not develop the deep ties to such concepts as furusato (hometown) and the emperor , both of which play large roles in the works of contemporaries Mishima Yukio and Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo. Furthermore, Abe did not undergo formal training in literature as did so many of his contemporaries. Instead he followed in his father's footsteps, studying medicine at Tokyo Imperial University. Unlike another famous medical doctor in Japanese literature, Mori Ogai, Abe did not excel in this field, nor did it seem that he had any particular enthusiasm for a life in medicine. It is said that he was allowed to graduate only on the condition that he never practice medicine. After the war Abe began experimenting with various radical social and artistic theories. Abe joined a small literary/artistic/philosophical group called

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Kobo Abe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Kobo Abe Abe Kōbō pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe Abe Kimifusa March 7 January 22 ) was a Japanese writer , playwright, photographer and inventor. His name is romanized as Kobo Abe in Vintage International 's English-language editions of his book, while Columbia University Press offers Three Plays by Kōbō Abe Contents Biography Summaries of selected works The Ruined Map (1964) The Ark Sakura (1984) ... edit Biography Abe was born in Kita Tokyo , grew up in Mukden (now Shen-yang ) in Manchuria . His father was a physician who taught at the medical college. Abe returned to Japan in and began studies at Tokyo Imperial University in . He graduated in with a medical degree, on the condition that he would not practice. He was first published as a poet with Mumei Shishu ("Poems of an unknown poet") in . The next year he published his first novel, Owarishi michi no shirube ni (“The Road Sign at the End of the Street”) which established his reputation. He worked as an avant-garde novelist and playwright, but it was not until he published

3. HORAGAI: Literary News Includes an interview with the author s daughter, a biography and bibliography. http://www.horagai.com/www/abe/english.html

Reading Abe Kobo What's New! Interview with Abe Neri (The daughter of Abe Kobo) Exhibition of Abe Kobo at Chofu City Bibliography A brief of Biography How contemporaries read Abe Kobo? Haniya Yutaka, Hanada Kiyoteru Interview with with the chief editor of The Complete Works of Abe Kobo Abe Kobo on the WWW Manuscripts of The Face of Another English article Japanese article Table of HORAGAI

4. Scriptorium - Kobo Abé The Fantastic Stories of abe kobo A Study of Three Early Short Stories with Translations. By Paul Henry Krieger, 1991. University of Minnesota. http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/abe.html

By David Keffer Introduction: The Clinical Eye of the Physician Biography Selected Bibliography of English Translations Credits Introduction: The Clinical Eye of the Physician No man or woman is wooed by theory alone. The Woman in the Dunes Biography The Road Sign at the End of the Street . In 1951 he was awarded the most important Japanese literary prize, the Akutagawa, for his novel The Crime of S. Karuma . In 1960 his novel The Woman in the Dunes won the Yomiuri Prize for literature. It was made into a film by Hiro Teshigahara in 1963 ( Suna no onna, For a much more complete biography, see The dates provided are for English translations. The Woman in the Dunes The Face of Another The Ruined Map Inter Ice Age 4 ... Kangaroo Notebook The Woman in the Dunes The Woman in the Dunes The Woman in the Dunes was the only one which gained wide exposure to Western audiences. The Woman in the Dunes The Woman in the Dunes , which, like Camus' The Stranger, In The Woman in the Dunes The Ark Sakura The Face of Another The Face of Another (1966) is both a psychological study and an existential allegory. The protagonist is again a scientist, "the section head of a respectable laboratory," whose face has been disfigured in a chemical explosion. This disfigurement creates a rift between the scientist and everyone he encounters particularly his wife. The source of this rift is due less to others' repulsion at his face than to the scientist's self-disgust

5. Abe Kobo --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on abe kobo Japanese novelist and playwright noted for his use of bizarre and allegorical situations to underline http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9003303/Abe-Kobo

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Biography Base Home Link To Us Search Biographies: Browse Biographies A B C D ... Z Abe Kobo Biography Abe Kobo In the 1960s, he collaborated with Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara in adapting to film The Pitfall, The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another and The Ruined Map. Abe's surreal and often nightmarish explorations of the individual in contemporary society earned him comparisons to Kafka and his influence extended well beyond Japan, particularly with the success of The Woman in the Dunes at the Cannes Film Festival. List of books available in English The Woman in the Dunes Inter Ice Age 4 The Face of Another The Ruined Map The Man Who Turned Into a Stick The Box Man Kangaroo Notebook The Ark Sakura Secret Rendevous Beyond the Curve (short stories) Three Plays by Kobo Abe Friends (play) Abe Kobo Resources Contact Us Sitemap This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License . It uses material from the Wikipedia article Abe Kobo

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Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='Abe Kobo' Printer Friendly 760,981,217 visitors served. TheFreeDictionary Google Word / Article Starts with Ends with Text subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia Hutchinson encyclopedia Abe Kobo Also found in: Wikipedia 0.10 sec. write_ads(AdsNum, 0) Japanese novelist and playwright. He was a leader of the avant-garde, and his familiarity with Western literature, existentialism, surrealism, and Marxism influenced his distinctive treatment of the problems of alienation and loss of identity in post-war Japan. His books include the claustrophobic novel 1962 and minimalist plays such as his trilogy Born in Tokyo, Abe spent his childhood and adolescence in Japanese-occupied Manchuria where his father was a professor of medicine. In 1940 he enrolled at Seijo High School, Tokyo, and entered Tokyo University Medical School 1943 in accordance with his father's wishes. His studies were cut short by nervous exhaustion and a short period in a mental hospital. At the end of the war he was supporting himself as a street vendor while writing poems and short stories. He published his first book of poems

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@import url( http://s.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/ocadia/style.css?m=1193427744 ); Asylum Kobo Abe: The Face of Another Posted in Abe Kobo at 2:00 pm by John Self The Face of Another (1966) has a better cover than The Woman in the Dunes , but that cheap thrill is soon forgotten when ploughing through this turgid tome. The blurb makes it sound almost thrilling, like an updated Invisible Man The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such a mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self - a self that is capable of anything. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity, and the social contract, The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order. But where The Woman in the Dunes (which immediately preceded The Face of Another The best thing about it are the forty-eight little iconic illustrations which begin each section, and which look like meaningless patterns to begin with, and then resolve themselves into different stylised faces and masks. One could profitably flick through and enjoy them, however, without wading through all the words in between.

16. Abe Kobo My novelist for August, in this series of 20thcentury Japanese novelists, is abe kobo (1924-93), who is as different from the authors I ve already http://www.washburn.edu/reference/bridge24/Abe.html

Abe Kobo My novelist for August, in this series of 20th-century Japanese novelists, is Abe Kobo (1924-93), who is as different from the authors I've already introduced as he can be, but he has belonged to the set of the "big five" for me ever since I first met them in reading the five novels assigned in the course in Modern Japanese Literature I took from Father William Currie at Tokyo's Sophia University in the summer of 1973, when I read Soseki's Kokoro , Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles , Kawabata's Snow Country , Mishima's Temple of the Golden Pavillion , and Abe Kobo's The Woman in the Dunes . For years I had a flyer (from Berkeley Press, I think) that I passed around in classes that showed that each of those five Japanese authors (and no others) had at least five novels translated into Englishall available in paperback from that press. A good friend in Topeka, Dr. Tetsuro Takahashi (whom I'll feature later as a Kansas author in his own right, with a book for sale), also pointed out to me that all five of these authors, over the generations, had graduated, as he had, from Tokyo University. But, working chronologically, we came to Abe Kobo last, of course, and discovered that he was different from those other four novelists in four important respects. First, he was still alive in 1973 (three of the others might well have been, having died within the previous eight years, two by suicide) and was very active in avant-garde theatre right there in Tokyo that very summer (though, I'm sorry to say, I did not know enough to seek him out at the time, but did finally meet both Abe and his wife at a reception in St. Louis after a production of the play

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Kobe Abe Famous Japanese Writer Home News Houston Asian Restaurants Guide Online Shopping ... Japanese Culture Kobo Abe Kobo Abe by Micheal Russell Kobo Abe, also known as Kimifusa Abe, was a Japanese writer who was born in Kita, Tokyo in 1924. Abe grew up in Manchuria, where his father had taught at a medical college. In 1941, Abe went back to Japan and began studying at Tokyo Imperial Universtiy. In 1948, he graduated with a medical degree but it is rumored that he was not allowed to practice. In 1947, Abe published a set of poems and then released his first novel "The Road Sign at the End of the Street", which he had written in memory of his father and friends who had died in Manchuria. Through these works, his reputation grew as being a talented novelist who was more avant-garde than others of the time. In 1951, Abe won the Akutagawa Award, an important literary prize in Japan, for his novel "The Crime of Mr. S. Karuma". What is less known is that Abe Kobo was also a member of the Communist Party. However, at the time, nearly all young Japanese writers were. Abe fought the party's leadership and then was later purged from the party in 1960. Two of his teachers both believed in anarchism as well, which may be the reason why Abe tried to take over the Communist party. It wasn't until 1962, however, that Kobe Abe became internationally popular with his novel "The Woman in the Dunes". He started to work with director Hiroshi Teshigahara in adapting some films, including "The Woman in the Dunes".

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SYM=GetSymbol('BIO'); The Best books ever written PENGUIN CLASSICS since 1946 Home ... Your Account click to view biography by this author Abe Kobo Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes The Ark Sakura The Face of Another The Box Man and The Ruined Map Send this page to a friend Registered Number 861590 England, Registered Office: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL TERMS AND CONDITIONS viewCounter('author', 30, 'Abe+Kobo', ''+SYM+'', '');

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