Richard F. Calichman is professor of Japanese studies at the City College of New York, CUNY. His Columbia University Press books include
Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan (2008);
Contemporary Japanese Thought (2005); and
What is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi (2005).
13 Ebooks von Kobo Abe
Kōbō Abe: The Frontier Within
Abe Kobo (1924–1993) was one of Japan’s greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. However, he also wrote theoretical criticism for which …
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Kōbō Abe: Beasts Head for Home
In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyūzō, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, c …
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Kobo Abe: Die Frau in den Dünen
In den Sanddünen vor einem abgelegenen Dorf frönt Niki Jumpei seiner einzigen Leidenschaft: der Suche nach unentdeckten Insektenarten. Als die Nacht hereinbricht, bieten ihm die Dorfbewohner ein Nach …
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Kobo Abe: Face of Another
The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident – a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry ba …
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Kobo Abe: Box Man
‚A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece‘ Chicago Sun Times’This is the record of a box man‘. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world …
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Kobo Abe: Ruined Map
‚A brilliant display of pyrotechnics, a compelling tour de force … by a master jeweller of polished prose‘ The New York Times A private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is n …
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Kobo Abe: Secret Rendezvous
‚A gorgeously entertaining, provocative book‘ Chicago Tribune It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man’s wife away – although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with her. As h …
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Kobo Abe: Ark Sakura
‚One of Japan’s most venerated writers‘ David Mitchell In this unnerving fable from one of Japan’s greatest novelists, a recluse known as ‚Mole‘ retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to find th …
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Kôbô Abe: La mujer de la arena
UNA DE LAS GRANDES NOVELAS JAPONESAS DEL SIGLO XX EN EL CENTENARIO DEL NACIMIENTO DE SU AUTOR «Kobo Abe, junto con Yukio Mishima y Kenzaburo Oe, fueron los grandes renovadores literarios en el Japón …
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