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Abe Kobo:     more books (96)

The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, 1991-04-16 Inter Ice Age 4 by Kobo Abe, 1972 The Face of Another by Kobo Abe, 2003-02-04 Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe, 2002-07-09 The Box Man: A Novel by Kobo Abe, 2001-07-10 The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Three Related Plays Kangaroo Notebook: A Novel by Kobo Abe, 1997-04-29 Fake Fish: The Theater Of Kobo Abe by Nancy Shields, 1996-04-01 The Ruined Map: A Novel by Kobo Abe, 2001-12-04 Three Plays by Kobo Abe Beyond the Curve (Modern Japanese Writers Series) by Kobo Abe, 1993-02 Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe, 1989-03-13 Friends, a Play By Kobo Abe Kobo Abe's "The Man Who Turned Into a Stick": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" (Volume 14, Chapter 9)

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1. Abe Kobo
   Novelist and playwright. Includes bibliographies of translated and critical works, a brief biography Category Arts Literature Authors A Abe, KoboAbe Kôbô (pron. AH upbringing. Abe grew up in Manchuria, or Manchukuoas the Japanese leasehold/puppet state was known at the time.  
   http://www.ibiblio.org/abekobo/
   
   Extractions: 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

2. HORAGAI: Literary News
   Provides a bibliography, a biography and numerous links to Kobo Aberelated resources on the Web. In Japanese and English. Interview with Abe Neri (The daughter of abe kobo). Exhibition of abe kobo at Chofu City  
   http://www.horagai.com/www/abe/english.html

3. HORAGAI: Abe Kobo
   abe kobo on the WWW. * Biography * Bibliography * Theatre Film ColumbiaUniversity. abe kobo's Friends. English Teshigawara Hirosi  
   http://www.horagai.com/www/abe/xabehot.htm

4. Kobo Abe
   Brief biography of Abe with bibliography of his works.Category Arts Literature Authors A Abe, Kobo Stick; abe koboshu, 1970; abe kobo gikyoku zenshu, 1970; abe kobozen-sakuhin, 1972-1973 (15 vols.); Four Stories by Kobo Abe, 1973;  
   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/koboabe.htm
   
   Extractions: (from The Ruined Map 'The teacher smiled:"No, it's not the case that all these people are sticks. When I say that being a stick is excessively ordinary, I speak in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. It's the same thing as mathematicians not saying much about the properties of a triangle. Because there are no new discoveries to be made from it."' (from 'The Stick' in Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-One Stories from the Japanese His first book Abe had actually written in 1943. In 1947 he had published at his own expense a collection of poems. Abe established his reputation the next year with the novel OWARISHI MICHI NO SHIRUBE NI. Important writers for his own artistic development were Edgar Allan Poe , Samuel Beckett, Rainer Maria Rilke and Fyodor Dostoyevsky . - With the death of Yukio Mishima Abe gained the status as major dramatist in the 1970s. His theater toured in the U.S. and performed in New York City in 1979. Abe died on January 22, 1993.

5. Abe Links
   At present there are only short introductory pieces for abe kobo and Murakami Haruki.Not much content, but the cause is good.,. A Page for Ernest abe kobo.  
   http://www.ibiblio.org/abekobo/links.html
   
   Extractions: If you would like your site added to this list, please feel free to email me. Last updated May 11, 2002. Recommended Sites: The Scriptorium - Kobo Abe (English) j-lit.org (English) Additional Sites: Briefly introduces Abe and all of his major translated novels. Provides a unique reading of Abe's works through the lens of Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Worth a visit. A non-profit site that serves largely as a portal to Amazon.com, with proceeds used to purchase translations of Japanese literature for public libraries in the U.S.. While still in its earliest stages of development it aspires to become an online encyclopedia of Japanese literature as well as a fund-raising site. At present there are only short introductory pieces for Abe Kobo and Murakami Haruki. Not much content, but the cause is good., Kobo Abe A Page for Ernest - Abe Kobo Abe Kobo Inter Ice Age 4 Bold Type: Ruminations on Abe Kobo's ... Abe Kobo

6. Scriptorium - Kobo Abé
   The abe kobo Archive, located at the CV Starr East Asian Library of Columbia University,consist of photocopies of all documents that were in the author's  
   http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/abe.html
   
   Extractions: 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, 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

7. A Page For Ernest - Abe Kobo Profile Bibliography
   abe kobo. The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition. Abe, Kobo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Edition 5, 1993 p88.  
   http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/7684/akobobib.html

8. ABE Kobo
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9. Abe Kobo: Writing From Nowhere -- ThingsAsian Article
   Related Topics Literature. abe kobo Writing From Nowhere, By Jennifer Uhlich. AJapanese writer, writing about the world. abe kobo died in 1993. * * * *.  
   http://www.thingsasian.com/browse/bio/recent/goto_article/article.1403.html
   
   Extractions: Abe Kobo: Writing From Nowhere By Jennifer Uhlich Abe Kobo, novelist, playwright, and essayist, is often referred to as "Japan's Kafka." Though the phrase may seem complimentary, it also reveals an inherent schism in his writings. To relate authors across national borders is to imply two separate meanings: one, that there are themes in their respective works that transcend cultural contexts; two, that they are lacking some aspect of those contexts, something inherently "Japanese" in Abe's case. To transcend is also to leave behind. What is the relationship between Abe and Kafka? On one level, there is certainly a direct influence on Abe's subject matter. Kafka-esque themes such as transformation, absurdity, and surreal situations abound in Abe's stories. In the short story "Dendrocacalia," a man finds himself becoming a rare species of shrubbery, a direct homage to Kafka's Metamorphosis ; the connection is also present in The Face of Another , where Abe's protagonist undergoes horrific facial scarring and subsequently changes psychologically. The surreal, frustrating, frightening developments of Kafka's

10. Kobo Abe Bibliography
    A bibliography of Kobo Abe's books and short stories, with book covers.Category Arts Literature Authors A Abe, KoboA bibliography of Kobo Abe's books and short stories, with book covers andlinks to related authors. abe kobo (2000) by Timothy Iles. abe kobo.  
    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Kobo_Abe.htm

11. Abe Kobo By Timothy Iles
    FantasticFiction Authors abe kobo. Fantastic Fiction, Click here to visitour sponsor. US Price Check. Paperback. $25.51 BAMM $27.00 Amazon. abe kobo (2000).  
    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/books/x0/x1686.htm?authorid=5232

12. Abe Kobo Das Gesicht Des Anderen
    Translate this page abe kobo Das Gesicht des Anderen. Titel Das Gesicht des Anderen. Autorabe kobo. Rubrik Belletristik Romane Erzählungen Japanische  
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13. Mainichi Interactive - Japanofile - Japanese Authors
    Windows on Japanese literature abe kobo. By David Lurie ContributingWriter Monday, May 1, 2000. Mainichi Shimbun. abe kobo.  
    http://www.mainichi.co.jp/english/Japano/literature0501.html
    
    Extractions: Monday, May 1, 2000 Mainichi Shimbun Abe Kobo A s meditations on the absurdity and alienation of modern life, the writings of Abe Kobo are frequently compared to the work of authors like Kafka and Beckett. In novels like "The Face of Another" (trans. E. Dale Saunders; Kodansha, 1992), about a man whose attempt to mask his badly scarred face has unexpected consequences, and "The Ruined Map" (trans. E. Dale Saunders; Kodansha, 1993), the eerie story of a detective whose pursuit of a missing man leads to the dissolution of his self, Abe treats loneliness and the loss of identity with a dreamlike internal consistency that is both terrifying and strangely reassuring. Though they are often very funny, his novels and stories are also bleak and sparely written. The detachment that is fundamental to this style is not a pose; unlike Murakami Haruki, a popular contemporary author deeply influenced by him, Abe's deadpan is never cute. Philosophical depth underlies the coldness with which he treats his characters and the ease with which he transforms their bodies and identities: in his work, objects begin talking, move on their own, and even plot against humans; people, on the other hand, are liable to change into plants, articles of clothing, or even walls. The twelve elegantly translated short stories in "Beyond the Curve" (trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter; Kodansha, 1993) are an excellent introduction to the beauty, mystery, and humor of Abe's work. An excerpt from an early, award-winning novella, "The Crime of S. Karma," features the unforgettable scene of a man discovering that his business card has taken human form and begun impersonating him. "The Life of a Poet" is a starkly (perhaps ironically?) allegorical account of the value of art, memorable for images of a jacket made of human thread and snow of crystallized dreams so cold that it freezes time. Other stories showcase typical Abe themes like puzzling crimes (the hero of the darkly funny "An Irrelevant Death" blunders into implicating himself in the murder of a corpse he finds on his carpet), metamorphosis (in "Dendrocacalia," a man turns into a tree) and loss of identity (the title story features a severe case of amnesia).

14. Abe Kobo Der Verbrannte Stadtplan
    Translate this page abe kobo Der verbrannte Stadtplan. Belletristik Romane Erzählungen JapanischeLiteratur Romane Erzählungen Der verbrannte Stadtplan. abe kobo.  
    http://www.mlm-web.de/Abe-Kobo-Der-verbrannte-Stadtplan-3612650319.html

15. Abe Kobo
    abe kobo My novelist for August, in this series of 20thcentury Japanesenovelists, is abe kobo (1924-93), who is as different from  
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    Extractions: 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 have 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 here in Topeka, Dr. Tetsuro Takahashi (whom I will 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

16. Analysis Of Abe Kobo's The Red Cocoon
    Home Free Essays Book Reports Philosophy Analysis Of AbeKobo's The Red Cocoon Analysis Of abe kobo's The Red Cocoon.  
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17. D'Abe Kobo À Paul Auster
    Translate this page Retour à la page précédente.  
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18. ABE Kobo
    Translate this page Accueil Biblios A Retour abe kobo Kobo Abe Japon (07 mars 1924- 22 janvier 1993) Auteur de quelques romans à tendance SF ou Fantastique (La  
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19. PALATINE Directory: Kobo, Abe
    abe kobo. Biblion.com abe kobo. Bookshop bibligraphy of abe kobo, provides somedetails of Kobo's work and its place in 1960s1970s Japanese Culture.  
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    Extractions: Suggest a Link for Kobo, Abe Home Drama Practitioners ... Kobo, Abe Please scroll down for Articles, Lectures and Essays and Bibliographies Although this is a Geocities page (giving limited information on the author or context) this general biography of Abe Kobo is accompanied by a bibliography. Links to Amazon. Rate link Bookshop bibligraphy of Abe Kobo, provides some details of Kobo's work and its place in 1960s-1970s Japanese Culture. Rate link Abe Kobo links. Rate link Although still in development, this site has an annotated bibliography and biography. Rate link Bibliography, list of works. Rate link Contains direct reference to The Man Who Turned Into a Stick. Rate link Newspaper feature article on Abe Kobo May 2000. Rate link Critical commentary by David Keffer, also contains links to external sites. Rate link Articles, Lectures and Essays

20. Abe Kobo
    abe kobo Job, Title, Year, Average, Nb, Scriptwriter, The ThickWalledRoom, 1953, The Pitfall, 1962, 4.75, 1 reviews, Available medias for thismovie,  
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