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Kobo Abe
Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, searches the scorching desert for beetles. As night falls he is forced to seek shelter in an eerie village, half-buried by huge sand dunes. He…
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This Kafkaesque novel is an ambitious work about the lives of outcasts in modern Japan and such troubling themes as ecological destruction, old age, violence, and nuclear war ( New…
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A man’s frantic search for his vanished wife leads him to a sinister underground hospital. He encounters a sex-obsessed mix of patients and staff in this erotic satire of modern…
A private eye, hired to track down a missing man falls into Tokyo’s sleazy underworld, where his identity begins to mesh with that of the missing man.
In the aftermath of World War II, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving…
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Other title: Kemono tachi wa Kokyou wo Mezasu, A1957 –Title page verso.
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- a surreal work of apocalyptic science fiction
Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with…
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A nameless man who chooses to exist in a small cardboard box records life in the box and his observations of the world from its small window as he wanders…
As a jump-shoe salesman searches for his wife in a sinister underground hospital, his fascination with the hospital’s strange inhabitants, including a girl whose bones are gradually liquefying, causes him…
The Japanese novelist Abe has often been compared to Kafka and this 1966 novel suggests an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis. Abe’s narrator is a scientist who has been…
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The inhabitants of a remote seaside village imprison a Japanese biologist in a deep sand pit.
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…
Three plays by one of contemporary Japan’s most prominent writers-Involuntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Here-translated for this volume reveal Kobo Abe’s deep love of absurdity in the…
Three plays by one of contemporary Japan’s most prominent writers – Involuntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Here – translated for this volume reveal Kobo Abe’s deep love…
Abe Kobo (1924-1993) was one of Japan’s greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. He also wrote theoretical criticism, merging literary, historical…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Kobo Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
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A Study Guide for Kobo Abe’s The Man Who Turned Into A Stick, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
Timothy Iles
This work provides a comprehensive, English-langauge study of the literature, plays and theatre work of the important contemporary Japanese writer Abe Kobo, best known for his novel, Suna no onna…
Christopher Bolton
Since the 1950s, Abe Kobo (1924-1993) has achieved an international reputation for his surreal or grotesque brand of literature. Bolton explores how this reconciliation of ideas and dialects is for…
Margaret Key
This reassessment of some of the major fictional, dramatic, documentary, and critical texts in which Abe worked out his theory of realism in the 1950s and 1960s explores the ways…
Atsuko Sakaki
Through close reading of photography-inspired texts by Tanizaki, Abe, Horie and Kanai, The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature by Atsuko Sakaki examines the Japanese literary engagement with photography…
An ordinary man finds himself caught in the power of bizarre and unpredictable forces when he discovers one morning at breakfast that radish sprouts have begun to grow out of…
