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Kobo Abe

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Kobo Abe , pseud. of Kimifusa Abe, 1924-93, Japanese novelist and dramatist. Although Abe trained as a doctor, he never practiced medicine. Often compared to Kafka , he treated the contemporary human predicament in a realistic yet symbolic style. His minute descriptions of surrealistic situations often lend his works a nightmarish quality. Among Abe's novels are Woman in the Dunes (1962; tr. and film 1964), his best-known work, and Secret Rendezvous (tr. 1979). His plays include Friends (1967; tr. 1969). The first of his short stories to appear in English were collected in ... Read more

Kobo Abe
Kobo Abe An important figure in contemporary Japanese literature, Kobo Abe (1924-1993) attracted an international audience...many in post-World War II Japanese society. Abe's works were often linked to the writings... Read more

Suna No Onna
...Producers: Kiichi Ichikawa and Tadashi Ohno; screenplay: Kobo Abe, from a novel by Kobo Abe; photography: Hiroshi Segawa; editor: Masako Shuzui...Special Jury Prize, 1964. Publications Script: Abe, Kobo, Woman in the Dunes , New York, 1966. Books: Mellen... Read more

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	Kobo Abe, Japanese Novelist, Playwright ; Kobo Abe, a highly respected Japanese...Modern Japanese Literature. Mr. Abe's plays were less known in the...Imagination than the State." Mr. Abe told the Los Angeles Times through...had imagined." Born Kimifusa Abe on March 7, 1924, Mr. Abe changed his name to the more Chinese-sounding ... Read more
	Kobo Abe, 68; Japanese Playwright and Novelist ; Kobo Abe, a highly respected Japanese...Modern Japanese Literature. Mr. Abe's plays were less known in the...Imagination than the State." Mr. Abe told the Los Angeles Times through...had imagined." Born Kimifusa Abe on March 7, 1924, Mr. Abe changed his name to the more Chinese-sounding ... Read more
	Kobo Abe's Fables of Identity ; BEYOND THE CURVE By Kobo Abe Translated from the Japanese By Juliet...Kodansha International. 247 pp. $18.95 KOBO ABE, born in 1924 in Tokyo but brought up...identity and perhaps finding a new one. Abe went on to publish other strange novels... Read more
	Japanese Writer Kobo Abe, Influential Surrealist, Dies ; Kobo Abe, 68, a novelist and playwright who had a major...hospital in Tokyo. He had a heart ailment. Mr. Abe, often mentioned as a contender for the Nobel...had been denied him in the outside world. Mr. Abe's other novels included "Tanin no Kao" (The... Read more
	KOBO ABE'S ARTISTIC SHIPWRECK ; THE ARK SAKURA, by Kobo Abe; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter...Grotesque is the word for Japanese novelist Kobo Abe's ramshackle new novel. Set in an abandoned...aspects reminiscent of such previous Abe works as "The Woman in the Dunes... Read more
	Sand and tendrils. (Japanese novelist Kobo Abe and his book 'Dendrocacalia') ; ...opening line of a short story in which Kobo Abe, perhaps Japan's most renowned novelist...read in English in a collection of Mr Abe's short stories, Beyond the Curve...Intemational. The collection shows Mr Abe at his best, full of wry humour and... Read more
	Kobo Abe's Metropolis ; The Jan. 23 obituary for Kobo Abe hails the late Japanese novelist and playwright as an influential surrealist...identity. Although his literary landscapes are distinctly Japanese, Mr. Abe's writing has strong resonance for city dwellers around the world... Read more
	(book review) ; ABE KOBO: An Exploration of His Prose, Drama, and...Timothy Iles begins his critical analysis of Abe Kobo by posing this question to the reader, Why study Abe Kobo? (p. 5). Iles begins the exploration of his... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...English into the theatrical work of Kobo Abe, who is known primarily as a novelist in the West, Fake Fish: The Theater of Kobo Abe is, in the words of its author Nancy...as a guidebook to the world of the Abe Studio, focusing as far as possible... Read more
	NEW IN PAPERBACK ; FICTION Beyond the Curve , by Kobo Abe, translated from the Japanese by Juliet...achieved renown outside his own country, Kobo Abe, who died last month, was perhaps...this collection, is a good example of Abe's style: "He had company. The guest... Read more

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	Kobo Abe: Japan's novelist of alienation. (Obituary)
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