Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924 and grew up in Mukden, Manchuria, during World War II. In 1948 he received a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine. Considered one of Japan’s foremost novelists, his most famous works include The Face of Another (1964), The Box Man (1973), Secret Rendezvous (1977), and The Ark Sakura (1984). All of Abe’s books have been bestsellers in Japan and he was the recipient of numerous literary awards and prizes, including the Yomiuri Prize for The Woman in the Dunes in 1962. He collaborated with director Hiroshi Teshigahara on film adaptations of four of his novels—including The Woman in the Dunes—and was also widely known as a dramatist. He died in 1993.
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis , this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his 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 a mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self–a self that is capable of anything. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity and the social contract, The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.
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曆史上共有109位諾貝爾文學奬得主,有83位來自歐洲國傢,12位來自北美洲,1位來自大洋洲,亞洲僅有5位,分彆是印度的泰戈爾,日本的川端康成、大江健三郎,以色列的阿格農和中國的莫言。大江健三郎曾說,“如果安部公房先生健在,(諾貝爾文學奬)這個殊榮非他莫屬,而不會是我...
評分#掙紮# 天氣越來越熱。也越發痛感時間的絕對不足。亦越來越容易睏。再次重新瀏覽自己曾寫過的(或是整理過的)東西,對其中夾雜的矯情的語氣,就連我自己也深感厭倦。一大堆恥辱的自責的毛蟲從我全身的毛孔中蠕動著爬將齣來似的。本來,閱讀某本小說是為瞭在緊張學習中愉悅,放鬆...
評分日本“新浪潮”導演敕使河原宏曾將安部公房的《砂女》《他人的臉》《燃燒的地圖》等小說改編成電影,上映後廣受好評。安部公房的文學淵源是西方現代主義,人的異化、身份的迷失、反抗和妥協、內心的焦灼和苦悶是其作品的關鍵詞。《他人的臉》電影鏈接:http://t.cn/zW2uVzf
評分曆史上共有109位諾貝爾文學奬得主,有83位來自歐洲國傢,12位來自北美洲,1位來自大洋洲,亞洲僅有5位,分彆是印度的泰戈爾,日本的川端康成、大江健三郎,以色列的阿格農和中國的莫言。大江健三郎曾說,“如果安部公房先生健在,(諾貝爾文學奬)這個殊榮非他莫屬,而不會是我...
評分圖書標籤: 日本文學 日本 安部公房
對照電影改編看很有趣,因為原著是第一人稱的手記寫法,男主角在敘述中比電影版某種程度上更可同情:熟悉的敘詭。安部的點非常密集:identity, social constructed prejudice, marriage and love, power dynamic, etc. 然而越到最後越看齣瞭講述的無力,主角也自是知道的,所以最後纔會寫, "So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens."
評分對照電影改編看很有趣,因為原著是第一人稱的手記寫法,男主角在敘述中比電影版某種程度上更可同情:熟悉的敘詭。安部的點非常密集:identity, social constructed prejudice, marriage and love, power dynamic, etc. 然而越到最後越看齣瞭講述的無力,主角也自是知道的,所以最後纔會寫, "So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens."
評分wow英文版翻譯的真是相當驚艷瞭 比較喜歡前1/3 就像在這個人的腦子裏遊瞭一下泳一樣
評分wow英文版翻譯的真是相當驚艷瞭 比較喜歡前1/3 就像在這個人的腦子裏遊瞭一下泳一樣
評分對照電影改編看很有趣,因為原著是第一人稱的手記寫法,男主角在敘述中比電影版某種程度上更可同情:熟悉的敘詭。安部的點非常密集:identity, social constructed prejudice, marriage and love, power dynamic, etc. 然而越到最後越看齣瞭講述的無力,主角也自是知道的,所以最後纔會寫, "So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens."
The Face of Another 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載