SOURCE: Keene, Donald. “The Plays of Kōbō Abé: An Introduction.” In Three Plays by Kōbō Abé, pp. ix-xiii. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
In the following introduction, Keene traces the development of Abé's career as a dramatist and underscores the problems with translating the author's work.
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