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	Kobo Abe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kobo Abe (安部公房 Abe Kōbō, pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (Abe Kimifusa, born March 7, 1924 - January 22, 1993)) was a Japanese writer.
		Abe was born in Kita, Tokyo, grew up in then Mukden, (now Shen-yang) in Manchuria.
		Abe's surreal and often nightmarish explorations of the individual in contemporary society earned him comparisons to Kafka and his influence extended well beyond Japan, particularly with the success of Woman in the Dunes at the Cannes Film Festival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kobo_Abe (450 words)

	Abe Kobo
		Abe grew up in Manchuria, or Manchukuo as the Japanese leasehold/puppet state was known at the time.
		Abe joined a small literary/artistic/philosophical group called Yoru no kai (Night Association), and soon after his introduction to its leader, philosopher Hanada Kiyoteru, Abe joined the Japanese Communist Party (along with most of the rest of Japan's intelligentsia) and began experimenting with Marxism and surrealism in his literature.
		It is in these novels that Abe captures the social impact of Japan's rapidly urbanizing, growth-centered corporate society on the individual.
	www.ibiblio.org /abekobo (507 words)

	Scriptorium - Kobo Abé
		Kobo Abé was born Kimifusa Abé in Tokyo on March 7, 1924 but grew up in Mukden, Manchuria, where his father, a doctor, was on the staff of the Imperial Medical College.
		Abé describes an Orwellian future where, in order to ensure mankind's survival, extreme and secretive measures are taken outside the realm of public knowledge and at the expense of the general population.
		The Abe Kobo Archive, located at the C.V. Starr East Asian Library of Columbia University, consist of photocopies of all documents that were in the author's study at the time of his death, along with some original manuscripts.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/abe.html (6765 words)

	Scriptorium - Kobo Abe
		Abe died of a heart attack brought on by a brain hemorrhage on January 22, 1993 at the age of 68.
		In reading Abe's later works, we must acknowledge that the absence of existential conflict is due to the fact that the precepts of existentialism have already been accepted by the protagonist (and writer) and form the canvas upon which the later novels are depicted.
		Abe writes, "In seeing there is love, in being seen there is abhorrence." This idea, which drives the box man to hide within the cardboard box, is also reflected in Abe's incorporating photographs into the text of the novel.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/abe_prime.html (6519 words)

	Abe, Kobo, Suna no onna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kobo Abe is sometimes identified as a science fiction writer, and it may be because his works are bizarre and absurd with a existentialist taste.
		Abe was not among those who celebrated the emergence of SF in Japan, and now tends to be identified as a writer of serious literature outside SF.
		Abe's position is thus "a jun-bungaku writer who sometimes writes SF stories." The major reason Abe is not well accepted in the SF side is that he does not write about future at all.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/k/x/kxs334/academic/fiction/abe_suna.html (651 words)

	Abe Kôbô Two Essays on Science Fiction Introduced by Christopher Bolton Abe Kôbô
		Abe Kôbô (1924-1993) was one of Japan’s leading avant-garde writers of the postwar period, and he is frequently credited with helping to establish prose science fiction as a viable genre in Japan.
		Abe debuted after the war with a brand of fantastic but philosophical fiction that might be characterized as surreal or grotesque.
		Abe argues that sf should not ally itself too closely with a narrow idea of scientific accuracy, nor should it attempt to fix its own borders too firmly with an internal logic or genre definition that would limit its reach.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/88/abe.htm (5427 words)

	Abe, Kobo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		of Kimifusa Abe, 1924-93, Japanese novelist and dramatist.
		Although Abe trained as a doctor, he never practiced medicine.
		Among Abe's novels are Woman in the Dunes (1962; tr.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/abek1obo.asp (250 words)

	Abe Kobo: Writing From Nowhere -- ThingsAsian Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		This is not to say that Abe felt himself to be Jewish, or that his role as a Japanese writer was directly related to Jewish writers.
		Abe's protagonists are almost always solitary, locked in their roles; much of their ensuing problems arise from their lack of communication with co-workers, neighbors, fellow citizens.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.1403.html (806 words)

	The Face of Another:Abe, Kobo:0375726535:eCampus.com
		The Japanese novelist Kobo 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 hideously deformed in a laboratory accident, a man who has lost his face in a society where "losing face" is a synonym for humiliation.
		Alienated from his fellows, sexually rejected by his wife, the injured man painstakingly sets out to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0375726535&referrer=yah04 (120 words)

	Kobo Abe (1924-1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo on March 7, 1924.
		Abe began experimenting at this time with a variety of radical social and artistic theories.
		Unfortunately, very little of Abe's work from this period has been translated into English, but Abe's youth and idealism comes through clearly in what are some of his most (flly) humorous and outspoken works.
	www.csua.berkeley.edu /~raytrace/lit/authors/k_abe (601 words)

	Keene Center to Offer Variety of Events Commemorating Kôbô Abé
		Abé's complete literary works, which encompass numerous novels, plays, essays, and short fiction, will be published in a new multi-volume edition in Japanese by Shinchô-sha in Tokyo this spring.
		As a man of the theater, Abé was fascinated both by dramatic storytelling and by non-linguistic means of human expression as represented in film, dance, and abstract stage movement.
		In the early 1980s, Abé was instrumental in raising funds in Japan that made possible the creation of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia, and he was awarded an honorary degree by the University in 1975.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss20/record2120.28.html (937 words)

	Pacific Affairs: Abe Kobo: An Exploration of His Prose, Drama, and Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ABE KOBO: An Exploration of His Prose, Drama, and Theatre.
		In the introduction, the author outlines his method of critiquing Abe's novels and plays in relation to the artist's contemporaries (particularly Senda Koreya and Suzuki Tadashi), and discusses Abe's philosophy as well as his upbringing.
		Abe was born in colonial Manchuria and brought up in the Japanese northern island of Hokkaido, and it is important to note here that both Manchuria and Hokkaido were seen as "frontier lands" (p.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3680/is_200110/ai_n8981402 (536 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: A: Abe, Kobo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Horagai: Abe Kobo · cached · Includes an interview with the author's daughter, a biography and bibliography.
		Kobo Abe · cached · Brief biography of Abe with bibliography of his works.
		Kobo Abe - Modernity and Isolation in a Changing Japan · cached · Chapter focusing on Abe from Susan Llorens's Postwar Japanese Novelists.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=169069 (137 words)

	Postwar Japanese Novelists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born Kimifusa Abe (Kobo is the Chinese reading for the characters for “Kimifusa”), Abe spent most of his childhood in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, returning to Tokyo to enter university.
		Abe’s complete works are difficult to summarize; during his forty-year writing career, Abe wrote several novels, as well as volumes of poetry and short stories, and was also active in the theater.
		Abe’s favorite themes of alienation and personal identity issues surface, illustrated through the motif of a journey through a modern dystopian labyrinth.
	insite-tokyo.com /column/susan (885 words)

	Kobo Abe
		Central themes in Abe's works are loss of identity, alienation, isolation of the individual in a bizarre world, and the difficulty people have in communicating with one another.
		In the West Abe is best-known for his novels, such as The Woman in the Dunes (1962) and The Face of Another (1964).
		Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo, but he grew up in Mukden in Japanese-occupied Manchuria (present-day Shenyang in Liaoning Province), where his father, a physician, was on the staff of the medical school.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /koboabe.htm (1322 words)

	Kobo Abe Biography / Biography of Kobo Abe Main Biography
		An important figure in contemporary Japanese literature, Kobo Abe (1924-1993) attracted an international audience for novels in which he explored the nihilism and loss of identity experienced by many in post-World War II Japanese society.
		Abe's works were often linked to the writings of Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett for their surreal settings, shifting perspectives, grotesque images, and themes of alienation.
		Many critics contended that Abe's recurring themes of social displacement and spiritual rootlessness derived from his childhood in Manchuria, a region in northern China seized by the Japanese Army in the early 1930s,.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography-kobo-abe (233 words)

	Kôbô Abé Commemoration Starts
		Exhibitions, a concert of music composed for Kôbô Abé's films and dramas, a new production of his play Friends, readings and film screenings are planned as part of the tribute to the world-renowned, multitalented visionary whose work gave voice to the alienation and isolation of modern urban life.
		Abé, who was 69 at his death, is best known to Americans as the author of the novel Woman in the Dunes.
		Abé was often mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize, and his novels are widely read outside Japan in translations in English and 20 other languages.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss23/record2123.18.html (630 words)

	The Man Who Turned Into a Stick Summary & Essays - Kobo Abe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, it was not until Kobo Abe directed the play in his own Kobo Abe Studio in 1976 that the play reached, in Abe’s mind, a level of completion.
		Abe enjoyed complexities and ambiguities because he believed that it was through confronting uncertainty that people would break out of their rigid (or stick-like), preprogrammed thoughts.
		As Abe told Nancy Shields in her book Fake Fish, ‘‘The more we become free from the framework of reality the more clearly we get the real experience which corresponds to the fake experience in a dream.’’ That this statement is not easy to comprehend is also typical of Abe.
	www.enotes.com /man-stick (533 words)

	Kobo Abé: The Woman In The Dunes
		For those who need more than sun and surf, reading about the inevitable futility of life may be just the remedy for all the giddiness around you.
		Abé tells the story of a an insect collector who travels to a remote seaside village to chase bugs.
		In his determination to catch a particular beetle, he wanders into a village and is unknowingly trapped by the local villagers.
	www.plume-noire.com /culture/books/woman.html (532 words)

	C Bolton-Dissertation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Abe is best known for the grotesque or surreal elements in his work, but his novels also contain a great deal of scientific material, including characters, plot elements, and technical language drawn from a range of scientific disciplines.
		My approach to Abe borrows Mikhail Bakhtin's idea that the novel is a genre uniquely able to incorporate dialects or voices from a range of different discourses, some scientific and some more fantastic, and each associated with a particular perspective or world view.
		I am also interested in situating Abe within the long tradition of literary critical efforts to map the boundaries of scientific and literary prose, a body of work that ranges from Western Renaissance critics like Jacopo Mazzoni to Japanese critiques of the postmodern,like the work of Karatani Kôjin.
	redcocoon.org /cab/myrsch.html (279 words)

	Arts Literature Authors A Abe Kobo Directory IndiaPress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Horagai: Abe Kobo - Includes an interview with the author's daughter, a biography and bibliography.
		Kobo Abe - Brief biography of Abe with bibliography of his works.
		Kobo Abe + Modernity and Isolation in a Changing Japan - Chapter focusing on Abe from Susan Llorens's Postwar Japanese Novelists.
	www.indiapress.org /directory/Arts-Literature-Authors-A-Abe,_Kobo.html (159 words)

	Criticism
		Though somewhat dated, there is an extensive and informative introduction to the translation of four of Abe's stories that would be useful to those looking into Abe for the first time.
		One of the primary foci of the dissertation is to question the distinction between science and art.
		There is also a monograph version of the dissertation, but it is extremely difficult to get, expensive, and exactly the same (so far as I could tell) as the UMI version, so you are much better off getting that.
	www.ibiblio.org /abekobo/criticism.html (494 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Kangaroo Notebook : A Novel (Vintage International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kangaroo Notebook is the last book written by Kobo Abe; in many ways, it is a reflection on the approach of death, on being an outsider, and, perhaps, on outsider as a kind of death.
		Abe's typical protagonist is an "outsider" who is haunted by a sense of alienation and anxiety over the fragility of individual identity.
		Yet Abe's fiction reflects his strong Japanese heritage in its vividly imagistic prose, its abundant incorporation of Japanese cultural icons and its satirical treatment of Japanese psychosocial dynamics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679746633?v=glance (2478 words)

	Waggish: Kobo Abe
		At the time I was a huge Camus adherent, and the summary of a man trapped in a sand pit with a woman who has lived there for years, makes it sound similar to any number of existentialist works of fiction.
		The situations Abe deals in do not raise epistemological or existential questions; they are deranged treatments of metaphysics.
		With Donoso, I believe it is. With Abe, they seem detached from thought altogether: some sort of objectification of humans.
	www.waggish.org /2003/01/kobo_abe.html (836 words)

	Powell's Books - The Box Man by Kobo Abe
		And like Kafka, Abe writes with simplicity and precision, a style so deceptive that only the most attentive reader will be aware of the existential abyss opening beneath the seemingly spare surface of the novels."
		Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties.
		Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country’s foremost living novelist, and was also widely known as a dramatist.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?show=trade+paper:new:0375726519:12.00 (526 words)

	Abe Kobo -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		More results on "Abe Kobo" when you join.
		When some man came along who knew a little about the three R's—as the main subjects of reading, writing, and (a)'rithmetic were called—he might teach the boys and girls for a few weeks—usually in the winter when farm work was slack.
		For the last few miles Thomas, probably helped by Abe, had to cut a trail out of the wilderness of trees and tangle of wild grapevines.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9003303?tocId=9003303&query=abe (718 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Fake Fish : The Theater Of Kobo Abe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kobe Abe is probably best known as the author of the novel Woman in the Dunes (1964) and as a leader in experimental fiction.
		Like his novels, Abe's plays were experimental, and he developed his own directing methods to prepare actors for the strange worlds he created for them.
		Shields, through the use of interviews and her own involvement with the Abe Studio, leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Abe's theatrical experimentation, his rehearsal and performance style, his literary career, and his thoughts and approach to theater, literature, and life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0834803542?v=glance (428 words)

	ABE Kobo - Vikipedio
		Literaturo > Japanlingva literaturo > ABE Kobo < Japana lingvo
		ABE Kobo (naskĝis la 7-an de marto, 1924 en Tokio, mortis la 22-an de januaro, 1993 samloke) estis japana verkisto.
		La invaduloj : notoj kaj epilogo / Abe Kôbô.
	eo.wikipedia.org /wiki/ABE_Kobo (82 words)

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