Kōbō Abe (1924–1993)
Autor de La mujer de la arena
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Kôbô Abe
Obras de Kōbō Abe
Historia de las pulgas que viajaron a la luna (y otros cuentos de ficción científica) (2013) 9 copias
Härra S. Karma kuritöö : [jutustus] 2 copias
Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self 2 copias
The Life of a Poet [short story] 2 copias
Całkiem jak człowiek 1 copia
Neljas jääaeg 1 copia
" Izbrannoe". 1 copia
Kobieta z wydm 1 copia
ΤΟ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟ ΤΟΥ ΑΛΛΟΥ 1 copia
Избранное 1 copia
跳蚤奔月 1 copia
砂丘之女及其他 1 copia
箱子裹的男人 1 copia
De droomsoldaat 1 copia
砂の女 1 copia
Červený kokon 1 copia
無関係な死・時の崖 1 copia
箱男 1 copia
A Mulher da Areia 1 copia
Woman from the sands 1 copia
Inter Ice age 4 1 copia
La mujer de arena 1 copia
Červený kokon 1 copia
La mujer de la arena 1 copia
Женщина в Песках 1 copia
第四間氷期 [Daiyon kanpyōki] 1 copia
زن در ریگ روان 1 copia
The Internal Boundary 内なる边境 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Contribuidor — 189 copias
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 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
石の文学館 ――鉱物の眠り、砂の思考 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
日本SFベスト集成〈1975〉 (1984年) (徳間文庫) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Abe, Kōbō
- Nombre legal
- Abe, Kimifusa
- Otros nombres
- 安部公房
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1924-03-07
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1993-01-22
- Lugar de sepultura
- Kamikawa Reien, 1520 Kamikawa-machi, Hachioji City, Tokyo, 192-0151, Japan
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Japan
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Tokyo, Japan
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Chofu-shi, Tokyo, Japan
- Lugares de residencia
- Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Tokyo, Japan - Educación
- University of Tokyo (MD | 1948)
- Ocupaciones
- poet
novelist
playwright
businessman
inventor - Relaciones
- Teshigahara, Hiroshi (collaborator)
Mishima, Yukio (friend) - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1992)
- Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1992)
Miembros
Debates
The Box Man by Kobo Abe en Author Theme Reads (mayo 2015)
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe en Author Theme Reads (mayo 2013)
The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abé en Author Theme Reads (mayo 2012)
The Face of Another by Kobo Abe en Author Theme Reads (abril 2012)
Reseñas
Listas
Existentialism (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 97
- También por
- 14
- Miembros
- 7,931
- Popularidad
- #3,058
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 142
- ISBNs
- 236
- Idiomas
- 21
- Favorito
- 57
An unnamed detective is hired to find his client’s husband. The husband is a salesman who disappeared at the corner of a street near their home, and the client's brother has tried without success to find him.
The detective never seems to be quite certain what he is looking for, and the story reads often as though he has two and two in his two hands, but he cannot make them make four. He seems to be in between very distinct places for much of the book: the couple's apartment and his own office, the office and the dry channel where the prostitutes work, the office and the noodle-shop, and so on. Neither the places nor his journeys between them lead to any advancement in his case, as though the eponymous ruined map he has been given keeps him in the wrong place, rather than guiding him to where he might find answers.
In the same way, the detective seems to be in-between the pages of the book, but never quite in, let alone driving, the story. He expects to find ways of resolving the mystery through his obsessive attention to irrelevant details, like traffic patterns or matchbooks. He never seems to get any closer to the object of his search, except insofar as he begins to identify strongly with the husband, thereby failing to find either of them.
'The Ruined Map' is written in a naturalistic way, and is bleakly funny in places, but both characteristics serve to underline isolation as a fundamental human experience, as the detailed description of particular places throws into relief the universality of absurdity as characteristic of life.… (más)