Kōbō Abe Orden de los libros (cronológico)

'A gorgeously entertaining, provocative book' Chicago Tribune It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with her. As he sets out to find her, he finds himself in the corridors of a vast underground hospital, where he encounters sinister medics, freakish sexual experiments and the unmistakable feeling of being watched. Even when he is suddenly appointed as the hospital's chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he is a horse, he will not give up his search. Secret Rendezvous is a nightmarish satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life. 'Reads as if it were the collaborative effort of Hieronymus Bosch, Franz Kafka and Mel Brooks' Chicago Sun Times

Один энтомолог-любитель, взяв на работе небольшой отпуск, отправляется на побережье в поисках интересных экземпляров для своей коллекции. Наткнувшись на прибрежную деревню, он решается в ней переночевать, чтобы наутро продолжить свои изыскания и вернуться домой. Наступил новый день, а с ним и проблемы, обнаружить которые наш энтомолог никак не ожидал...

In the aftermath of World War II, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture. Beasts Head for Home is an acute novel of identity, belonging, and the vagaries of human behavior from an exceptional modern Japanese author.

"Abe Kobo tackled contemporary social issues and literary theory with the depth and facility of a visionary thinker."--Jacket cover.

A recluse who, convinced that the world will end soon, takes up residence in an abandoned mine and then attempts to sell tickets to his 'ark' to people he deems worthy of saving from the apocalypse

From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital. From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that she is perfectly healthy, her bewildered husband realizes that things are not as they should be. His covert explorations reveal that the enormous hospital she was taken to is home to a network of constant surveillance, outlandish sex experiments, and an array of very odd and even violent characters. Within a few days, though no closer to finding his wife, the unnamed narrator finds himself appointed the hospital’s chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he’s a horse. With its nightmarish vision of modern medicine and modern life, Secret Rendezvous is another masterpiece from Japan’s most gifted and original writer of serious fiction.

Der letzte Roman des 1992 verstorbenen japanischen Autors Kobo Abe thematisiert Einsamkeit, Entfremdung und Identitätsverlust. Der namenlose Ich-Erzähler, ein Büroangestellter mit einer seltsamen Krankheit, begibt sich auf eine magische Reise durch nächtliches Tokio und verschiedene surrealistische Orte, bis er in einem Krankenhaus landet.

In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment that repulses his doctor but provides the patient with the unusual ability to snack on himself. In short order, Kobo Abe's unraveling protagonist finds himself hurtling in a hospital bed to the very shores of hell. Abe has assembled a cast of oddities into a coherent novel, one imbued with unexpected meaning. Translated from the Japanese by Maryellen Toman Mori.