books by Kobo Abe     books:     Kobo Abe      Kangaroo Notebook: A Novel Kobo Abe Vintage, 1997 A Dream World Just This Side of Madness "Which situation should I declare 'real' and which one a 'dream?'" This is the question that plagues the narrator of Kobo Abe's Kangaroo Notebook, the last novel written before his death in 1993. We can consider ourselves lucky, indeed, that one of the world's most ...             Secret Rendezvous Kobo Abe Vintage, 2002 The labyrinth of a Hospital The hospital is a labyrinth of human depravity. A man wanders through it searching for his wife, constantly assaulted by odd and insane sights, sounds, and people. Written with mind piercing clarity and description.             Inter Ice Age 4 Kobo Abe Perigee Trade, 1981 Abe's best entertaining novel I think I am familiar with Abe's works quite well. I've read all his works including short stories, plays, essays, interviews and novels (in Japanese). (I first encountered with his work when I was in a junior high school in Japan. One of his short stories was in the ...             Beyond the Curve (Modern Japanese Writers Series) Kobo Abe Kodansha International (JPN), 1993 One of Japan's greatest literary exports! Beyond the Curve by Kobo Abe is one of the best compilations of short stories I've read. His style is like a blend of Rod Serling, Stephen King and Salvador Dali. Each tale is strange and unique and tests the limits of your imagination. As much as I like his other ...             The Face of Another Kobo Abe Vintage, 2003 Suspenseful with a mind boggling affect! I loved this book and will be giving it for holiday gifts this year. The philosophical musings are incredibly powerful and thought provoking, while the prose is intense and suspenseful. After page 83, I found myself yelling outloud to the narrator whose journal we ...             The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe Vintage, 1991 Scary, but somehow comforting. The sand pit in Kobo Abe's The Woman In The Dunes is a completely artificial construct, but it never feels that way. In reality, sand doesn't behave the way described in the book. When the director Hiroshi Teshigahara made the film adaptation ("Woman In The Dunes," ...             The Box Man: A Novel Kobo Abe Vintage, 2001 It's hip to be square... Having put off reading this book until I moved back to Tokyo I'd say the box man mentality fits nicely with foreigners trying to understand Japan. Someone first descibed living in Tokyo to me like floating in a warm bubble. Unless you speak the language or fit in ...             The Ruined Map: A Novel Kobo Abe Vintage, 2001 One of Kobo Abe's finest writings Kobo Abe, one of the greatest surrealistic novelists, liked to depict, with the precise calculation and unconstrained freedom of mind that Picasso gave his work, entangled and precarious relatiionships between an individual and the society to which he "belongs". In ...             Ark Sakura Kobo Abe Vintage, 1989 Kobo Abe, Japanese Beckett A truly weird and amusing novel, Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe (The Woman in the Dunes) has the extraordinary ability to abolish your everyday reality in favor of its vivid, voyeuristic depiction of the bizarre consequences of an utterly unsupervised reality, a twisted ...             A Late Chrysanthemum (Tut Books) Shiga Naoya, Ozaki Shiro, ... Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988 heartache this is my introduction to japanese stories and also one of my favourite collections of short stories along with salinger's nine stories and schickler's kissing in manhattan. two of the great writers are here dazai and kawabata it's a small book and it's nice 'cause ...             The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe Charles E. Tuttle, 1970 Won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 1960. Became a film shown at the International Film Festival in Cannes.             Three Plays by Kobo Abe (Modern Asian Literature) Kobo Abe Columbia University Press, 1993 -- New England Theatre Journal          products you might be interested in search for books chrysanthemum, japanese, kangaroo, literature, notebook, rendezvous      toavi.com    web we recommend Scary, but somehow comforting. randomly chosen book: Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost ...