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Abe Kobo (1924 - 1993) was a Japanese author.
He was born in Tokyo, grew up in Manchuria and graduated with a medical
degree from Tokyo Imperial University before becoming an avant-garde
novelist and playwright. In the 1960s, he collaborated with Japanese
director Hiroshi Teshigahara in adapting to film The Pitfall, The Woman in
the Dunes, The Face of Another and The Ruined Map. Abe's surreal and often nightmarish explorations of the individual in
contemporary society earned him comparisons to Kafka and his influence
extended beyond Japan, particularly with the success of The Woman in the
Dunes at the Cannes Film Festival.
List of Books Available in English: The Woman in the Dunes, Inter Ice Age
4, The Face of Another, The Ruined Map, The Man Who Turned Into a Stick, The
Box Man, & Kangaroo Notebook.
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