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Intimate, contemplative, grave and prestige.
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Abe Kōbō
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- Knopf, Ediciones Siruela, Stock
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- Spanish, English, Japanese, French
- ISBN
- 9784101121154
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Kōbō Abe (安部 公房) is the pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (安部 公房). Abe was born in Kita, Tokyo, the son of a physician who taught medicine. He was raised in Mukden, Manchuria. He returned to Japan in 1941, and in 1943 he went to Tokyo Imperial University, where he earned a medical degree but he failed his medical exam and was forbidden from practicing. He returned to Manchuria as an author. In 1947, he self-published his first book, Mumei-shishū ("Poems of an unknown poet"). His wrote avant-garde poetry, novels, and plays. In 1977 he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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