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Kōbō Abe

Index Kōbō Abe

, pen name of, was a Japanese writer, playwright, musician, photographer, and inventor. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 70 relations: Absurdist fiction, Akutagawa Prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Anpo protests, Avant-garde, Beasts Head for Home, Brno, Donald Keene, E. Dale Saunders, Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Husserl, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friends (1988 film), Fyodor Dostoevsky, Haiyuza Theatre Company, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Hisashi Igawa, Hokkaido, Honolulu, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Inter Ice Age 4, Japanese Communist Party, Japanese language, John Nathan, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Jun Ishikawa, Kangaroo Notebook, Karel Čapek, Karl Jaspers, Kenzaburō Ōe, Kita, Tokyo, List of Japanese writers, Lu Xun, Manchuria, Martin Heidegger, Modernism, Nobel Prize in Literature, Parco (retailer), Pitfall (1962 film), Rainer Maria Rilke, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Secret Rendezvous (novel), Seijo Gakuen Junior High School and High School, Shenyang, Surrealism, Tanizaki Prize, The Ark Sakura, The Asahi Shimbun, The Box Man (novel), ... Expand index (20 more) »

  2. 20th-century Japanese dramatists and playwrights
  3. Japanese fantasy writers
  4. People from Kita

Absurdist fiction

Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value.

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Akutagawa Prize

The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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Anpo protests

The Anpo protests, also known as the in Japanese, were a series of massive protests throughout Japan from 1959 to 1960, and again in 1970, against the United States–Japan Security Treaty, which allows the United States to maintain military bases on Japanese soil.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Beasts Head for Home

Beasts Head for Home (けものたちは故郷をめざす, Kemono tachi wa kokyou wo mezasu, 1957) is an early autobiographical novel by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe.

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Brno

Brno (Brünn) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Donald Keene

Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. Kōbō Abe and Donald Keene are 20th-century Japanese male writers.

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E. Dale Saunders

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

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Edmund Husserl

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague. Kōbō Abe and Franz Kafka are Magic realism writers and Weird fiction writers.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

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Friends (1988 film)

Friends is a 1988 Japanese-Swedish drama film directed by Kjell-Åke Andersson.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Ѳедоръ Михайловичъ Достоевскій.|Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy|p.

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Haiyuza Theatre Company

The is a Japanese theatre company based in Tokyo.

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Hiroshi Teshigahara

was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era.

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Hisashi Igawa

Hisashi Igawa (井川比佐志 born 17 November 1936) is a Japanese actor who has appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Dodesukaden, Ran and Madadayo.

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Hokkaido

is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.

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Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.

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Hungarian Revolution of 1956

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet Union (USSR).

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Inter Ice Age 4

Inter Ice Age 4 (第四間氷期, Dai-Yon Kampyōki) is an early science fiction novel by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe originally serialized in the journal Sekai from 1958 to 1959.

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Japanese Communist Party

The is a communist party in Japan.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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John Nathan

John Weil Nathan (born March 1940) is an American translator, writer, scholar, filmmaker, and Japanologist.

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Juliet Winters Carpenter

Juliet Winters Carpenter (born 1948) is an American translator of modern Japanese literature.

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Jun Ishikawa

was the pen name of a modernist author, translator and literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan. Kōbō Abe and Jun Ishikawa are 20th-century Japanese male writers, 20th-century Japanese novelists, 20th-century Japanese short story writers, Akutagawa Prize winners, Japanese male short story writers and writers from Tokyo.

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Kangaroo Notebook

is a novel written by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe between ca.

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Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek (9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist.

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Karl Jaspers

Karl Theodor Jaspers (23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy.

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Kenzaburō Ōe

was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. Kōbō Abe and Kenzaburō Ōe are 20th-century Japanese novelists, 20th-century Japanese short story writers, Akutagawa Prize winners, Japanese male short story writers, Japanese science fiction writers, Magic realism writers and Yomiuri Prize winners.

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Kita, Tokyo

is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan.

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List of Japanese writers

This is an alphabetical list of writers who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language.

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Lu Xun

Lu Xun (25 September 188119 October 1936), born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer, literary critic, lecturer, and state servant. Kōbō Abe and lu Xun are 20th-century pseudonymous writers.

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Manchuria

Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria.

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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Parco (retailer)

is a chain of department stores primarily in Japan.

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Pitfall (1962 film)

, a.k.a. The Pitfall and Kashi To Kodomo, is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, written by Kōbō Abe.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist.

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

, art name, was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. Kōbō Abe and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa are Japanese male short story writers, Weird fiction writers and writers from Tokyo.

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Secret Rendezvous (novel)

Secret Rendezvous (密会, Mikkai) is a 1977 novel by Kōbō Abe.

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Seijo Gakuen Junior High School and High School

is a private junior high and high school in Setagaya, Tokyo, operated by the Seijo Gakuen institute.

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Shenyang

Shenyang is a sub-provincial city in north-central Liaoning, China.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.

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Tanizaki Prize

The Tanizaki Prize (谷崎潤一郎賞 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō), named in honor of the Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, is one of Japan's most sought-after literary awards.

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The Ark Sakura

The Ark Sakura (方舟さくら丸 Hakobune Sakura-maru) is a novel by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe.

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The Asahi Shimbun

is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan.

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The Box Man (novel)

is a novel by Kobo Abe, originally published in Japanese in 1973, about a man wearing a cardboard box and his observations of the world outside.

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The Face of Another

is a 1964 novel written by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe.

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The Face of Another (film)

is a 1966 Japanese New Wave film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the 1964 novel of the same name written by Kōbō Abe.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Man Who Turned Into A Stick

The Man Who Turned Into A Stick (棒になった男 – Bō ni natta otoko) is a one-act play written in 1957 by Kōbō Abe.

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The Man Without a Map

is a 1968 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and starring Shintaro Katsu.

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The Ruined Map

The Ruined Map (燃え尽きた地図 Moetsukita chizu, 1967) is a novel by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe, translated into English by E. Dale Saunders for Knopf in 1969.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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The Woman in the Dunes

is a novel by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe, published in 1962.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan

The, more commonly known as the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in English and as the or just in Japanese, is a treaty that permits the presence of U.S. military bases on Japanese soil, and commits the two nations to defend each other if one or the other is attacked "in the territories under the administration of Japan".

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Typhus

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.

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University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo (abbreviated as Tōdai (東大) in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg; – 14 April 1930) was a Soviet Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor.

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Woman in the Dunes

is a 1964 Japanese New Wave avant-garde psychological thriller film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and starring Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida, and Kōji Mitsui.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yasunari Kawabata

was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. Kōbō Abe and Yasunari Kawabata are 20th-century Japanese novelists, 20th-century Japanese short story writers, Japanese male short story writers and Magic realism writers.

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Yomiuri Prize

The is a literary award in Japan.

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Yoru no Kai

Yoru no Kai (夜の会, "Night Society," est. 1947/1948) was a short-lived but highly influential art research and discussion group founded in early postwar Japan by two major theorists, Kiyoteru Hanada and Tarō Okamoto.

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Yukio Mishima

, born, was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the. Kōbō Abe and Yukio Mishima are 20th-century Japanese dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Japanese novelists, 20th-century Japanese short story writers, 20th-century pseudonymous writers, Japanese male short story writers, writers from Tokyo and Yomiuri Prize winners.

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1956 Poznań protests

The 1956 Poznań protests, also known as Poznań June (Poznański Czerwiec), were the first of several massive protests against the communist government of the Polish People's Republic.

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See also

20th-century Japanese dramatists and playwrights

Japanese fantasy writers

People from Kita

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōbō_Abe

Also known as Abe Kimifusa, Abe Kôbô, Abe Kohboh, Abe Kooboo, Abe Koubou, Abe Kōbō, Abe, Kobo, Kimifusa Abe, Kôbô Abe, Kohboh Abe, Kooboo Abe, Koubou Abe.

, The Face of Another, The Face of Another (film), The Guardian, The Man Who Turned Into A Stick, The Man Without a Map, The Ruined Map, The Washington Post, The Woman in the Dunes, Tokyo, Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan, Typhus, University of Tokyo, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Woman in the Dunes, World War II, Yasunari Kawabata, Yomiuri Prize, Yoru no Kai, Yukio Mishima, 1956 Poznań protests.