41. Kobo Abe (1924-1993) kobo abe was born in Tokyo on March 7, 1924. His given name was Kimifusa ( kobo is a Chineselike pronunciation of Kimifusa ). His father, a doctor of the http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~raytrace/lit/authors/k_abe/

About the Author Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo on March 7, 1924. His given name was Kimifusa ("Kobo" is a Chinese-like pronunciation of "Kimifusa"). His father, a doctor of the hospital attached to the Imperial Medical College of Manchuria, raised Abe in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. He attended an "experimental learning" elementary school that focused on debating and rapid reading (Abe could read one page in a few seconds). As a young man, Abe was interested in mathematics and insect collecting as well as the works of Poe, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Heidigger, Jaspers, and Kafka. The Manchuria Empire was set up by Japan and was ruled substantially by Japanese bureaucrats, who, like ones of the British Empire, had their sons return to Japan for education. Abe was sent back to Tokyo to attend Sejo Koko High School, a famous private school. He was later admitted to the school of medicine of Tokyo University. In 1944, when he heard that Japan would lose the war, and he forged a medical certificate to get home to Manchuria. Japan's defeat dissolved the Manchurian Empire. The ensuing disorder near the end of 1946 found Abe's father wandering Manchuria attempting to get back to Japan, but a bout of cholera proved fatal.

42. Abe, Kobo : Inter Ice Age 4 Annotated abstract of abe s work at Medical Humanities. http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=476

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Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Kobo Abe Also known as: å ¬æˆ¿ [Abe, Kobo] 安部 K´b´ Abe Kobo. E. Dale Saunders Abe translator K´b´ Ab© ... Abe Kobo Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Disambiguation Notice a.k.a. Kimifusa Abe Books by Kobo Abe combine/separate works The woman in the dunes 553 copies, 8 reviews The box man 171 copies, 2 reviews The ruined map 125 copies, review The face of another 115 copies, 2 reviews Secret rendezvous 103 copies, 1 review Kangaroo notebook : a novel 95 copies, 1 review The ark Sakura 80 copies, 1 review Inter Ice age 4 63 copies, 1 review Beyond the curve 45 copies, review Friends; [play] 11 copies, review 8 copies, review Murs (les) 4 copies, review 3 copies, review Toverkrijt : verhalen 2 copies, review A homok asszonya : Reg©ny 1 copy, review see all 20 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars

44. Kobo Abe Criticism kobo abe 1924–1993. (Also transliterated as Kôbô abe and K b Ab ) Japanese short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. http://www.enotes.com/short-story-criticism/abe-kobo

utmSetVar('lit_all'); Kobo Abe Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Kobo Abe 1924–-1993 (Also transliterated as K´b´ Abe and Kōbō Abē) Japanese short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. The following entry provides information on Abe's short fiction career from 1983 through 2000. INTRODUCTION Abe is viewed as one of the most significant writers to emerge from post-World War II Japan. His work as a short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright has been praised for its exploration of such existentialist themes as identity and alienation, and Abe is often referred to as the “Japanese Kafka.” His fiction has been perceived as a break with traditional Japanese literature and has been commended for its incorporation of universal concerns. Because Abe's work garnered attention internationally and was often translated into different languages, critics note that he helped to attract world attention to issues in postwar Japanese life. Biographical Information Abe was born on March 7, 1924, in Tokyo, Japan. He grew up in the ancient Manchurian city of Mukden, which was taken over by the Japanese in 1931. His disgust at the behavior of the occupying Japanese forces inspired a strong anti-nationalist feeling as well as an alienation from his own country, two themes that recur in his fiction. He attended Tokyo University and was granted an M.D. degree in 1948. That same year, his novella

45. PALATINE Directory: Kobo, Abe REVIEW Review article by D J Enright on Secret Rendezvous by kobo abe. As part of the New York Review of Books electronic edition, the article is available http://www.palatine.ac.uk/directory/index.php/pra/wri/kob/kob/

@import url(/css/style.css); PALATINE home about contact events ... View printable version Kobo, Abe Suggest a Link for Kobo, Abe Home Practitioners Writers and Directors (post 1848) ... Biblion.com: Abe Kobo Bookshop bibligraphy of Abe Kobo, provides some details of Kobo's work and its place in 1960s-1970s Japanese Culture. Rate link Horogai (Online magazine of Japanese Literature) Abe Kobo links. Rate link Ibiblio: Abe Kobo Although still in development, this site has an annotated bibliography and biography. Rate link Japanese Literature Resources, University of California, Berkeley: Abe Kobo Bibliography, list of works. Rate link Longman Anthology of Drama and Theater, The: A Global Perspective Contains direct reference to The Man Who Turned Into a Stick. Rate link Scriptorium: Abe Kobo Critical commentary by David Keffer, also contains links to external sites. Rate link Articles, Lectures and Essays Suggest a Link for Articles, Lectures and Essays Home Practitioners Writers and Directors (post 1848) ... 'Kobo Abe: Modernity and Isolation in a Changing Japan' REVIEW: Article by Susan Llorens for Insite-Tokyo, an online magazine site. Llorens reflects on Kobe's work and on perceptions of absurdity in his writing. The article is very much an introduction to the work but is noteable for locating Kobe's writing in contrast to the context of autobiographical writing that has dominated post-war Japanese fiction. A longer piece might have provided more detail to shore up the effects of this perspective. Reviewed November 2002, by Stuart Andrews.

46. Kbo Abe (1924-1993) Japanese Writer (19241993) Japanese writer. kobo abe has been compared to German writer Franz Kafka. He s known for Woman in the Dunes and Secret Rendezvous. http://classiclit.about.com/od/abekobo/Abe_Kobo.htm

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47. Waggish: Kobo Abe Donoso s The Obscene Bird of Night also reminds me of kobo abe, particularly his insane works of the 70 s, The Box Man and Secret Rendezvous. http://www.waggish.org/2003/01/kobo_abe.html

Waggish Main January 28, 2003 Kobo Abe Donoso's The Obscene Bird of Night also reminds me of Kobo Abe, particularly his insane works of the 70's, The Box Man and Secret Rendezvous . As long as we're drawing cross-continental comparisons, William Burroughs is there too, but Burroughs more surrealist, later work is pedantic and decadent in a too-familiar way. These two books of Abe's aren't familiar. They don't seem like successes, and it's not easy to say that they succeed on their own terms, because they don't appear to have their own terms. Calling them pretentious is besides the point, since the books don't have a pretense towards anything in particular. Psychological and and political intimations turn out to be complete blinds; what mostly flows out of the books is deep, total sickness. Apart from Inter Ice Age 4 , an early work which gets mired in the tropes of science fiction, most of Abe's translated books do have a purity about them. I discovered Abe through The Woman in the Dunes . At the time I was a huge Camus adherent, and the summary of a man trapped in a sand pit with a woman who has lived there for years, makes it sound similar to any number of existentialist works of fiction. It's not. Attempts to draw a metaphor do not work, since the book remains focused on the constraining of the man with a fundamentally unresponsive woman, and his very real interaction with the sadistic villagers keeping him there. The slow madness that overcomes him stems from the particular (and odd) circumstances rather than any speculative human condition. Far from existential, the story has more in common with Nabokov, especially the finely-ground fantasies

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53. Kobo Abe | UXL Encyclopedia Of World Biography | Find Articles At BNET.com kobo abe from UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography in Reference provided free by Find Articles. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5229/is_2003/ai_n19144316

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56. Notes Of A Book Dreamer: Woman In The Dunes By Kobo Abe The kobo abe novel Woman in the Dunes is a Japanese novel written in the 1960s and was made into a film in the same period. It traces, in a small book of http://blueidol-notesofabookdreamer.blogspot.com/2008/01/woman-in-dunes-by-kobo-

skip to main skip to sidebar Notes of a book dreamer Confessional notes about the books that come in and out my life Friday, 4 January 2008 Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe The Kobo Abe novel "Woman in the Dunes is a Japanese novel written in the 1960s and was made into a film in the same period. It traces, in a small book of less then 300 pages, the implications of being alienated and the contradictions of conformity freedom if that conformity has a purpose. Niki Junpei a teacher trapped in a empty teaching job, a failed relationship and a life mapped up to retirement and death goes a secret 3 day trip- done to wind up his work colleagues. He is an amateur entomologist (bug collector!) which in Japan of the period is an equally conforming hobby. (The imagery of trapping, collecting, recording and pinning is an important an important motif. Junpei is interested in sand bugs so goes to area of sand dunes. When he misses the last bus back, a group of locals suggest he stays the night in their village. They send him down a rope-ladder to a house at the bottom of a sandpit, where a young widow lives alone. She has been tasked along with a handful of other households by the village with preventing the sands from destroying the house (if their houses succumbs to the dunes then the other houses in the village will be threatened). When Junpei tries to leave the next morning he finds the ladder removed. The villagers inform him that he must help the widow in her endless task of digging sand. Junpei initially tries to escape, upon failing he takes the widow captive, but is forced to release her when the house almost collapses after several days of sand build up outside. At one point he does escape only to be captured and gradually

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59. Rereading: The Woman In The Dunes By Kobe Abe | By Genre | Guardian Unlimited Bo kobo abe s novel The Woman in the Dunes appeared in 1962, to spontaneous acclaim, That kobo abe had survived his early 20s to mature into one of his http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1889375,00.html

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