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Abe, Kôbô

Una noche, una ambulancia despierta al protagonista y a su esposa con órdenes de trasladar a la mujer al hospital, pese a que ella asegura que está sana. Estupefacto, el hombre no atina a subir al vehículo. Al día siguiente, luego de varios interrogatorios, da con un hospital al que podría haber sido llevada, pero no hay rastros ni registros de su mujer, y a nadie le importa el...

Abe, Kôbô

Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes," combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. W...

Abe, Kôbô

ike an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis," this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident-a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him....

Abe, Kôbô

""The Woman in the Dunes," " by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the loc...