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Kōbō Abe (1924–1993)

Author of The Woman in the Dunes

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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 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)
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Works by Kōbō Abe
The Woman in the Dunes 2,804 copies, 63 reviews
The Box Man 874 copies, 19 reviews
The Face of Another 668 copies, 13 reviews
The Ruined Map 585 copies, 4 reviews
The Ark Sakura 435 copies, 9 reviews
Secret Rendezvous 419 copies, 6 reviews
Inter Ice Age 4 354 copies, 6 reviews
Kangaroo Notebook 339 copies, 6 reviews
Beyond the Curve 201 copies
Friends: A Play 66 copies, 1 review
Woman in the Dunes [1964 film] (Writer) 40 copies, 1 review
Three Plays by Kobo Abe 33 copies
Beasts Head for Home 30 copies
The Wall 26 copies
The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Three Related Plays 23 copies
The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kobo (Weatherhead Books on Asia) 20 copies
The Unrelated Death 15 copies
Die Erfindung des R 62 12 copies
Toverkrijt 12 copies
CUENTOS SINIESTROS, LOS (Spanish Edition) 11 copies
De Japanse herfst : moderne Japanse verhalen (Author) 11 copies, 1 review
死に急ぐ鯨たち (新潮文庫) 7 copies
Just Like Humans 5 copies
The Laughing Moon 5 copies
Historia de las pulgas que viajaron a la luna (y otros cuentos de ficción… 5 copies
El grupo de petición anticanibalista y los tres caballeros 5 copies, 2 reviews
Encuentros secretos 4 copies
Idéntico al ser humano 3 copies
Kutu Adam 3 copies
Tre metamorfosi: racconti 3 copies
League of the Hungry 2 copies
水中都市・デンドロカカリヤ (新潮文庫) 2 copies
砂漠の思想 (講談社文芸文庫―現代日本のエッセイ) 2 copies
Baskasinin Yüzü 2 copies
Four Stories 2 copies
Sobranie sochinenii v 4 tomakh Tom 1 Zhenschina v peskakh Chuzhoe litso 2 copies
Capullo rojo / Red Cocoon (Resonancias / Resonances) (Spanish Edition) 2 copies
Женщина в Песках 1 copy, 1 review
Červený kokon 1 copy
زن در ریگ روان 1 copy, 1 review
" CHetvertyĭ lednikovyĭ period. Totaloskop." 1 copy
Sobranie sochinenii v 4 tomakh. Tom 3. Tainoe svidanie. Voshedshie v… 1 copy
第四間氷期 [Daiyon kanpyōki] 1 copy
" Izbrannoe". 1 copy
砂丘之女及其他 1 copy
De droomsoldaat 1 copy
箱子裹的男人 1 copy
"Chuzhoe litso." " Sozhzhennaia karta" " Chelovek- iashchik". - Romany 1 copy
砂の女 1 copy
Чужое лицо Сожженная карта Человек-ящик 1 copy
跳蚤奔月 1 copy
Чужое лицо (Азбука-классика) (Russian Edition) 1 copy
Sobranie sochinenii v 4 tomakh Tom 2 Sozhzhennaia karta Chelovek iaschik 1 copy
Kobieta z wydm 1 copy
Собрание сочинений в 4 томах. Том 1.… 1 copy, 1 review
Избранное 1 copy
i gynaika tis ammou / η γυναίκα… 1 copy
無関係な死・時の崖 1 copy
Sieviete smiltīs ; Svešā seja : [romāni] 1 copy
Ceturtais ledus laikmets : romāns 1 copy
L'arca Ciliegio 1 copy
The Internal Boundary 内なる边境 1 copy
幽霊はここにいるどれい狩り = yurehakokonirudorekari 1 copy
Moteris smėlynuose: Svetimas veidas 1 copy
Neljas jääaeg 1 copy
The Life of a Poet [short story] 1 copy
"Biblioteka sovremennoĭ fantastiki".( Tom2) 1 copy
WOMAN IN THE DUNES. THE SCREENPLAY. 1 copy
გამყინვარების მეოთხე… 1 copy
Three Plays: Involuntary Homicide / The Green Stockings / The Ghost is… 1 copy
Zena u pesku 1 copy
Stony Eyes 1 copy
The dream escape 1 copy
Friends / The Man Who Turned Into A Stick 1 copy
(霊媒の話より)題未定: 安部公房初期短編集 1 copy
榎本武揚 (中公文庫) 1 copy
カーブの向う・ユープケッチャ (新潮文庫) 1 copy
La mujer de la arena 1 copy
箱男 1 copy
反劇的人間 1 copy
けものたちは故郷をめざす (新潮文庫 あ 4-3) 1 copy
内なる辺境 (中公文庫) 1 copy
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Canonical name
Abe, Kōbō
Legal name
Abe, Kimifusa
Other names
安部公房
Date of birth
1924-03-07
Date of death
1993-01-22
Burial location
Kamikawa Reien, 1520 Kamikawa-machi, Hachioji City, Tokyo, 192-0151, Japan
Gender
male
Nationality
Japan
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Place of death
Chofu-shi, Tokyo, Japan
Cause of death
Places of residence
Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Tokyo, Japan
Education
University of Tokyo (MD | 1948)
Occupations
poet
novelist
playwright
businessman
inventor
Relationships
Teshigahara, Hiroshi (collaborator)
Mishima, Yukio (friend)
Agents
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1992)
Awards and honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1992)
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