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Kobo Abe's Fables of Identity
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BEYOND THE CURVE
By Kobo Abe
Translated from the Japanese
By Juliet Winters
Kodansha International. 247 pp. $18.95
KOBO ABE, born in 1924 in Tokyo but brought up as a child and
youth in Manchuria, trained as a doctor, though he has never
practiced medicine. Though he was awarded one of the most
prestigious Japanese literary prizes, the Akutagawa, in 1951, his
first breakthrough in the West was The Woman in the Dunes, the film
of which won the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1963.
The Woman in the Dunes is a hypnotic story of a struggle for
existence. Full of hard-edged detail ...
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Transcript from: Washington Transcript Service
; ...FOR THE UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL REGULAR NEWS BRIEFING, AS RELEASED BY THE U.N. NOVEMBER 17, 2009 SPEAKER: ASSOCIATE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL FARHAN HAQ [*] HAQ: Good afternoon, everyone. Our guests at the...
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Transcript from: Washington Transcript Service
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Transcript from: NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday
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Transcript from: Congressional Testimony
; ...other hand, threats from nation-states were seen in the purviewof international law and international bodies such as the U.N. and deterredand responded to through largely diplomatic, and if required, ultimatelymilitary means. Almost every nation worldwide...
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Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data
; ...emissions. New laboratory facilities willdevelop the technologies and design approaches that enable net-zero energybuildings (N-ZEB) at low incremental cost. The Department of Energy solicitedapplications from eligible National Laboratories nationwide...
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