Sands of imprisonment, subjugation, and empowerment: reading Foucault in Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes.(Critical essay)

The Comparatist | May 1, 2007| | Copyright

Any reader who is familiar with the fiction of the Japanese modernist writer and critic Kobo Abe understands that his works depict alienation, emptiness, and loss of identity and that many of his novels and plays deal primarily with characters who find themselves entrapped in nightmarish situations they cannot escape, much as in Kafka, Beckett, and Ionesco. Hisaaki Yamanouchi states that Abe's "works provide a picture of life in which man is utterly lonely, deprived of communication with his fellow men and determined by physical reality. And yet what Abe intends to prescribe ...

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