The Washington Post, April 21st, 1991
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, though he has never practiced medicine. Though he was awarded one of the most prestigious Japanese literary prizes, the Akutagawa, in 1951, his first breakthrough in the West was The Woman in the Dunes, the film of which won the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1963. The Woman in the Dunes is a hypnotic story of a struggle for existence. Full of hard-edged detail and cir...
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