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Kobo Abe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (450 words) |
 | Kobo Abe (安部公房 Abe Kōbō, pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (Abe Kimifusa, born March 7, 1924 - January 22, 1993)) was a Japanese writer. |
 | Abe was born in Kita, Tokyo, grew up in then Mukden, (now Shen-yang) in Manchuria. |
 | Abe's surreal and often nightmarish explorations of the individual in contemporary society earned him comparisons to Kafka and his influence extended well beyond Japan, particularly with the success of Woman in the Dunes at the Cannes Film Festival. |
| Abe Kobo (507 words) |
 | Abe grew up in Manchuria, or Manchukuo as the Japanese leasehold/puppet state was known at the time. |
 | Abe joined a small literary/artistic/philosophical group called Yoru no kai (Night Association), and soon after his introduction to its leader, philosopher Hanada Kiyoteru, Abe joined the Japanese Communist Party (along with most of the rest of Japan's intelligentsia) and began experimenting with Marxism and surrealism in his literature. |
 | It is in these novels that Abe captures the social impact of Japan's rapidly urbanizing, growth-centered corporate society on the individual. |