Kōbō Abe (1924–1993)
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Kobo Abe is the pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe, who was born in Tokyo, Japan on March 7 1924. He was brought up in Manchuria where he lived with his father, a doctor of the hosipital attached to the Imperial Medical Colledge of Manchuria. In elementary school, he was educated in the experimental way, in mostra altro which a teacher trained children to debating and rapid reading. Abe went back to Tokyo and went to Sejo Koko High School, a famous private school. He was later admitted to the faculty of medicine of Tokyo University. In 1944, Abe heard that Japan would lose the war before long and he forged a medical certificate to get home to Manchuria. He earned his medical degree in 1948, but never practiced. After graduation he began his writing career and became a member of a literary group led by Kiyoteru Hamada. Often compared to Kafka , he treated the contemporary human predicament in a realistic yet symbolic style. In 1951 he got the Akutagawa Award by his first masterpiece, Kabe (The Walls). Among Abe's novels are Woman in the Dunes, published in 1962 and made into a film in 1964, and his best-known work, Secret Rendezvous. His plays include Friends, published in 1967. The first of his short stories to appear in English were collected in Beyond the Curve, 1944-66. Abe died in 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Kōbō Abe
Historia de las pulgas que viajaron a la luna (y otros cuentos de ficción científica) (2013) 9 copie
The Life of a Poet [short story] 2 copie
Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self 2 copie
Červený kokon 1 copia
De droomsoldaat 1 copia
砂の女 1 copia
A Mulher da Areia 1 copia
" Izbrannoe". 1 copia
箱子裹的男人 1 copia
砂丘之女及其他 1 copia
跳蚤奔月 1 copia
Kobieta z wydm 1 copia
Całkiem jak człowiek 1 copia
ΤΟ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟ ΤΟΥ ΑΛΛΟΥ 1 copia
Избранное 1 copia
Inter Ice age 4 1 copia
Neljas jääaeg 1 copia
The Internal Boundary 内なる边境 1 copia
La mujer de la arena 1 copia
La mujer de arena 1 copia
Woman from the sands 1 copia
زن در ریگ روان 1 copia
箱男 1 copia
無関係な死・時の崖 1 copia
Červený kokon 1 copia
Женщина в Песках 1 copia
第四間氷期 [Daiyon kanpyōki] 1 copia
Opere correlate
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Collaboratore — 189 copie
自然読本 夢・眠り 夜明かしする人悩む人、夢見る人は眠る人 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
石の文学館 ――鉱物の眠り、砂の思考 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
日本SFベスト集成〈1975〉 (1984年) (徳間文庫) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Abe, Kōbō
- Nome legale
- Abe, Kimifusa
- Altri nomi
- 安部公房
- Data di nascita
- 1924-03-07
- Data di morte
- 1993-01-22
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Kamikawa Reien, 1520 Kamikawa-machi, Hachioji City, Tokyo, 192-0151, Japan
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Japan
- Luogo di nascita
- Tokyo, Japan
- Luogo di morte
- Chofu-shi, Tokyo, Japan
- Luogo di residenza
- Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Tokyo, Japan - Istruzione
- University of Tokyo (MD | 1948)
- Attività lavorative
- poet
novelist
playwright
businessman
inventor - Relazioni
- Teshigahara, Hiroshi (collaborator)
Mishima, Yukio (friend) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1992)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1992)
Utenti
Discussioni
The Box Man by Kobo Abe in Author Theme Reads (Mag 2015)
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe in Author Theme Reads (Mag 2013)
The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abé in Author Theme Reads (Mag 2012)
The Face of Another by Kobo Abe in Author Theme Reads (Aprile 2012)
Recensioni
One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Abe-Les-murs/341289
> [Japon]. LES MURS, par ABE Kôbô - Récits traduits du japonais par Marc Mécréant, Collection Unesco d’Œuvres Représentatives, 256 pages / 8,10 € Z ISBN: 978-2-87730-193-0. — Six récits qui nous entraînent dans un univers fantastique, celui du labyrinthe de l'identité aux frontières du réel et du rêve, et qui ont valu à leur auteur une renommée considérable au Japon avant même que La Femme des sables ne consacre sa renommée internationale en 1962.
—Catalogue Picquier Poche 2019… (altro)
> [Japon]. LES MURS, par ABE Kôbô - Récits traduits du japonais par Marc Mécréant, Collection Unesco d’Œuvres Représentatives, 256 pages / 8,10 € Z ISBN: 978-2-87730-193-0. — Six récits qui nous entraînent dans un univers fantastique, celui du labyrinthe de l'identité aux frontières du réel et du rêve, et qui ont valu à leur auteur une renommée considérable au Japon avant même que La Femme des sables ne consacre sa renommée internationale en 1962.
—Catalogue Picquier Poche 2019… (altro)
Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, seeks a rare beetle in the desert. The day ends, and he is lost in the sand dunes. In desperation, he agrees to assistance from another man who finds the entomologist shelter for the night. He is taken to a sand cliff from which he is lowered by rope ladder to a small house, partially covered by sand and inhabited by a lone woman. In the morning, the rope is gone but the woman remains.
The story was terrifying and engrossing all at once. It had the essence of one person being alone, yet not being alone; disappearing and yet not disappearing. Thinking of a person placed in a captive situation, it made me question whether it would be better to remain aloof or to befriend a captor. Presenting just as many questions as answers, this book turned out to be an incredible mind trip. I kept on trying to figure out what it all meant, whether it was a metaphor for anything at all or just a bizarre tale meant for entertainment. It was a story, complete with perfectly situated pen-and-ink drawings, about the meaning of being held captive and containing sequences of events and scenery which made for surreal and fascinating reading.… (altro)
The story was terrifying and engrossing all at once. It had the essence of one person being alone, yet not being alone; disappearing and yet not disappearing. Thinking of a person placed in a captive situation, it made me question whether it would be better to remain aloof or to befriend a captor. Presenting just as many questions as answers, this book turned out to be an incredible mind trip. I kept on trying to figure out what it all meant, whether it was a metaphor for anything at all or just a bizarre tale meant for entertainment. It was a story, complete with perfectly situated pen-and-ink drawings, about the meaning of being held captive and containing sequences of events and scenery which made for surreal and fascinating reading.… (altro)
Liste
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 97
- Opere correlate
- 14
- Utenti
- 7,905
- Popolarità
- #3,068
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 141
- ISBN
- 236
- Lingue
- 21
- Preferito da
- 57
Kobo Abe nasceu em Tóquio a 7 de março de 1924. A sua primeira obra publicada, um volume de poesia, surgiu em 1947. Em 1951, viu o livro de contos Kabe [O Muro] ser galardoado com o Prémio Akutagawa e ganhou reconhecimento público. A Mulher da Areia, lançado em 1962 e adaptado ao cinema por Hiroshi Teshigahara dois anos mais tarde, é considerado a sua obra-prima. Frequentemente comparado com Franz Kafka, pela originalidade de uma escrita onde o surreal e o claustrofóbico surgem como vias para questionar o indivíduo na sociedade moderna, Kobo Abe foi um dos mais prestigiados autores japoneses do século xx. Faleceu a 22 de janeiro de 1993.… (altro)