(1957), a story about a parentless young man who is searching his way Maybe there's no such thing as "Japan" after all," he wrote in Beasts Head for Home The defeat of the JapaneseĮmpire in World War II left Abe disillusioned about the future of his country. (1948), about the story of an opium addict. His reputation as a writer Abe established with the Published at his own expense a collection of poems. Important writers for his own artisticĭevelopment were Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Beckett, Rainer Maria Rilke and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His preoccupation with ideas rather than stylistic techniques. His writing, often stiff and formal, reflected His first book Abe had actually written in 1943. Because there are no newĭiscoveries to be made from it."' (from 'The Stick' in Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-One Stories from the Japanese, 1986) It's the same thing as mathematicians not saying When I say that being a stick isĮxcessively ordinary, I speak in the qualitative rather than the
'The teacher smiled:" No, it's not theĬase that all these people are sticks. Techniques of Surrealism with Marxist ideology. They were committed to the goal of fusing the Night Group (Yoru no Kai), a loose confederation of writers, philosophers, and intelligentsia He became a member of an avant-garde group named Instead Abe started his career as a writer. During the war heĪfter repatriation Abe continued his studies and graduated in 1948, with the promise that Because of respiratory illness, Abe was exempted from military service. In 1941 Abe moved to Japan and entered in 1943 the University of Tokyo to Perhaps his many years outside Japan and its contemporary cultural life led him to study such Western philosophersĪs Heidegger, Jaspers and Nietzsche.
As a young man Abe was interested in mathematics and insect collecting. His father, a physician, wasĪ member of the staff of a medical school. (present-day Shenyang in Liaoning Province), where he moved with his family in 1925. Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo to Abe Asakichi and Yorimi, but he grew up in Mukden in Japanese-occupied Manchuria
That's the only instant you really know somebody's there." I mean what were you looking at through the window?" In the West,Ībe is best-known for his novels, such as The Woman in the Dunes (1962) and The Face of Another (1964). Central themes in Kobo Abe's work are loss of identity,Īlienation, isolation of the individual in a bizarre world, and theĭifficulty people have in communicating with one another. Shared with Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco a similar, absurd sense A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪvant-garde novelist and playwright and a superb storyteller, who
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