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| Name: |
Kobo Abe | | Birth Date: |
March 7, 1924 | | Death Date: |
January 22, 1993 | | Place of Birth: |
Tokyo, Japan | | Place of Death: |
Tokyo, Japan | | Nationality: |
Japanese | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, playwright |
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 Biography of Kobo Abe
2,886 words, approx. 10 pages
 For almost forty years until his death in 1993, Abe Kb occupied a central position among avant-garde artists in Japan. Active as a novelist, a writer of film scenarios, a dramatist, and a director of theater pieces, Abe's protean literary activities... summary from source:
 Biography of Kobo Abe
1,971 words, approx. 7 pages
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... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Kobo Abe Information
1,110 words, approx. 4 pages
 Kobo Abe (安部公房 Abe Kōbō, pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (Abe Kimifusa, March 7,1924 - January 22, 1993)) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. His name is romanized as Kobo Abe in Vintage International's English-language...
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 The Washington Post Kobo Abe's Fables of Identity
04/21/1991: 673 words, approx. 2 pages 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,... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Kobo Abe's Artistic Shipwreck
04/06/1988: 541 words, approx. 2 pages THE ARK SAKURA, by Kobo Abe; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Knopf. 336 pp. $18.95. Grotesque is the word for Japanese novelist Kobo Abe's ramshackle new novel. Set in an abandoned subterranean quarry presided over by a 215-pound, 5-foot-8 fellow who calls himself...
Literary Criticism
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 Excerpt by Timothy Iles
14,062 words, approx. 47 pages
In the following excerpt, Iles offers a thematic and stylistic analysis of Abe's short fiction.
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Critical Essay by Wimal Dissanayake
6,591 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Dissanayake lists the reasons for the success of the cinematic adaptation of Abé's novel The Woman in the Dunes.
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