Books by Kobo Abe

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 back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such mask is more than a disguise.

Una finísima sátira alegórica del autor Kobo Abe en la que disecciona nuestras obsesiones y el absurdo de la vida que nos rodea. El locutor de un programa de radio sobre Marte ve amenazado su modo de vida a raíz de una misión espacial que pretende llegar al planeta rojo. Poco después recibirá la visita de alguien que afirma ser marciano y que lo arrastrará a una delirante espiral de desconciertos. Una novela que pone una sonrisa en la cara del lector para después helársela.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Kobo Abe es un autor nacido en Tokyo en 1924 y fallecido en 1993. Creció en la Manchuria dominada por el ejército japonés, hecho que marca toda su obra. Definido por algunos críticos como el Kafka japonés, su obra ha cosechado elogios por parte de autores como Kenzaburo Oe o Yukio Mishima.

Three plays by one of contemporary Japan's most prominent writers-Involuntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Here-translated for this volume reveal Kobo Abe's deep love of absurdity in the face of universal concerns.

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 he is lesser known, merging literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives into keen reflections on the nature of creativity, the evolution of the human species, and an impressive range of other subjects. Abe Kobo tackled contemporary social issues and literary theory with the depth and facility of a visionary thinker. Featuring twelve essays from his prolific career-including "e;Poetry and Poets (Consciousness and the Unconscious),"e; written in 1944, and "e;The Frontier Within, Part II,"e; written in 1969-this anthology introduces English-speaking readers to Abe Kobo as critic and intellectual for the first time. Demonstrating the importance of his theoretical work to a broader understanding of his fiction-and a richer portrait of Japan's postwar imagination-Richard F. Calichman provides an incisive introduction to Abe Kobo's achievements and situates his essays historically and intellectually.