![]() The main themes are abuse of power, subordination and isolation of the individual in a dystopian society. Sexual abuse is used as an instrument of power. The top executives and the staff of the hospital are acting dysfunctional. Abe describes the environment as totally technical and de-humanized. The wife was brought into the building but vanished without a trace.įrom now on the man is drawn into a labyrinth of the hospital and makes terrible and grotesque experiences. The man, a shoe salesman, searches after her with the help of the Mano Agency and enters the hospital where his wife is supposed to be. Two men with a stretcher carry her away, calling it an emergency. The woman is perfectly in health and knows nothing about an appointment at the hospital. One night an ambulance arrives, nobody having sent for, and carries away the man’s wife. The storytelling changes in parts into a first-person perspective by the same narrator. ![]() The story is mainly a report consisting of three notebooks from a third person perspective where he is referring to himself as the man. The main protagonist is a man without a name, age 32. ‘Secret Rendezvous’ (密会), written in 1977, can be described as a bizarre novel with a strong surrealistic atmosphere and sci-fi elements. The setting of his novels are anonymous and timeless, mostly with nameless protagonists without an individual character. He is influenced by Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett. He uses abstract literary language and often surreal metaphors. He died in 1993.Īs an avant-garde author Abe Kôbô writes about existential problems of modern life. Since 1973 Abe directed his own theatre company in Tokyo. He was awarded with many important literary awards as a novelist and playwright and was also mentioned as a recipient of the Nobel Prize. Many of his works were translated into different languages from the mid-1960s onwards. Karma’ (壁―S・カルマ氏の犯罪).Ībe is well-known for his novel Woman in the Dunes (砂の女) of 1962 which was made into a movie by Teshigahara Hiroshi in 1964. In 1951 he was awarded with the Akutagawa Prize for his short story ‘The Wall ―The Crime of S. Abe travelled to Eastern Europe and France. From 1949 until 1962 he was influenced by Marxism. He wrote poems, short stories, and later novels with surreal elements. In the beginning he imitated the style of Rainer Maria Rilke, a famous Austro-German poet. Abe went to school in Tokyo and studied also medicine at the Tokyo Imperial University.ĭuring his time as a student he began to write. He grew up in Mukden, today Shenyang, in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation. Abe Kôbô (安部 公房) was born in Tokyo in 1924.
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