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Tvář toho druhého - Kóbó Abe
O knize Tvář toho druhého Prózy Kóbó Abeho patří ve světě k nejznámějším dílům z japonské literární produkce druhé poloviny 20. století. Tématem většiny jeho děl je vnitřní svět člověka, u něhož střet s realitou vyvolává pocity zmatku, nejistoty a stresu. Cítí se v ní ohrožen a osamocen a touží z ní unikout.
Písečná žena - Kóbó Abe
O knize Písečná žena Kóbó Abe již v krátkém úvodu Písečné ženy de facto prozradí vše, co činí knihu napínavou a zdánlivě tak svému čtenáři vezme všechny důvody, proč by měl Písečnou ženu číst až do konce: jednoho dne hlavní hrdina zmizí beze stopy při své entomologické výpravě za příslušníky čeledi Cicindelidae, které jakožto neuspokojený středoškolský učitel a neukojený manžel zasvětil svůj život, protože, jak doufal, se mu podaří nalézt nový druh, který by mu pojmenováním po svém objeviteli...
myReviewer.com - About the Blu-ray - The Box Man
6 / 10 1 vote cast Rate this item Certificate: 18 Running Time: 121 mins Retail Price: £19.99 Release Date: Content Type: Movie Synopsis: Gakuryu Ishii, director of such cult classics as Electric Dragon 80000v and The Crazy Family takes on the 1973 novel “The Box Man” by Kōbō Abe (Woman in the Dunes), an adaptation 40 years in the making! A man with a cardboard box over his head wanders the streets of Tokyo.
Suna no Onna: An Absurd Reading
Abstract Woman in the Dunes (Suna no Onna), written by Kobo Abe, readily lends itself to analysis as an existential novel, which is described as a work that “subverts and ridicules traditional genres of realistic fiction, asserting its non-mimetic autonomy over against the conventional expectations and interpretative customs of the reader” (Goebel).
Great Opening Lines
Mitch Albom The First Phone Call From Heaven (2013) On the day the world received its first phone call from heaven, Tess Rafferty was unwrapping a box of tea bags. Albom clearly knows how to write a great first sentence, but he’s also adept at writing a compelling first page. Here’s how he continued after the opening sentence: Drrrnnn! She ignored the ring and dug her nails into the plastic. Drrrnnn! She clawed her forefinger through the bumpy part of the side.
Great Opening Lines
Edward Abbey Good News (1980) Two men sit on a rock halfway up the slope of a desert mountain. Sundown: The air is still, caught in the pause between the heat of the day, the cool of the evening. Doves call in twilight, testing the tentative peace. Downslope from the men a rattlesnake slides from its dark den, scales hissing over stone; the yellow eyes glow with hunger—death in its glance.
Great Opening Lines
Edward Abbey Good News (1980) Two men sit on a rock halfway up the slope of a desert mountain. Sundown: The air is still, caught in the pause between the heat of the day, the cool of the evening. Doves call in twilight, testing the tentative peace. Downslope from the men a rattlesnake slides from its dark den, scales hissing over stone; the yellow eyes glow with hunger—death in its glance.
Great Opening Lines
Edward Abbey Good News (1980) Two men sit on a rock halfway up the slope of a desert mountain. Sundown: The air is still, caught in the pause between the heat of the day, the cool of the evening. Doves call in twilight, testing the tentative peace. Downslope from the men a rattlesnake slides from its dark den, scales hissing over stone; the yellow eyes glow with hunger—death in its glance.
Great Opening Lines
Edward Abbey Good News (1980) Two men sit on a rock halfway up the slope of a desert mountain. Sundown: The air is still, caught in the pause between the heat of the day, the cool of the evening. Doves call in twilight, testing the tentative peace. Downslope from the men a rattlesnake slides from its dark den, scales hissing over stone; the yellow eyes glow with hunger—death in its glance.
Great Opening Lines
Edward Abbey Good News (1980) Two men sit on a rock halfway up the slope of a desert mountain. Sundown: The air is still, caught in the pause between the heat of the day, the cool of the evening. Doves call in twilight, testing the tentative peace. Downslope from the men a rattlesnake slides from its dark den, scales hissing over stone; the yellow eyes glow with hunger—death in its glance.
Great Opening Lines
Edward Abbey Good News (1980) Two men sit on a rock halfway up the slope of a desert mountain. Sundown: The air is still, caught in the pause between the heat of the day, the cool of the evening. Doves call in twilight, testing the tentative peace. Downslope from the men a rattlesnake slides from its dark den, scales hissing over stone; the yellow eyes glow with hunger—death in its glance.
Great Opening Lines
Edward Abbey Good News (1980) Two men sit on a rock halfway up the slope of a desert mountain. Sundown: The air is still, caught in the pause between the heat of the day, the cool of the evening. Doves call in twilight, testing the tentative peace. Downslope from the men a rattlesnake slides from its dark den, scales hissing over stone; the yellow eyes glow with hunger—death in its glance.
How to start building your classics collection
Are you too busy catching up on the latest prize-winners, TikTok buzz-books and word-of-mouth blockbusters to read anything older? Or are you simply overwhelmed about where to start with classic fiction? If this sounds like you, we’re here to help. Classics are worth getting into. They were, after all, the talked-about books of their day, and ones that talk to us still.
The Box Man
The Box Man Author: Kobo Abe ISBN: 9780241454596 In Stock Synopsis The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed by the box men, slowly becomes drawn in to the anonymity and voyeuristic life inside a box.
“Nawa” (“The Rope”) by Kobo Abe
Hello. Hideo Kojima’s long-awaited video game Death Stranding releases a week from today (I’m writing this on 1 November, 2019). Several years ago, Kojima revealed a trailer for the game which opened with a quote from a short story by the Japanese author Kobo Abe. Now that I have played the whole game (for the purpose of producing a review video for Kotaku.com) I know that the game itself opens with that same quote.
BEASTS HEAD FOR HOME
You can’t go home again—especially when you don’t know where home is. In a scenario reminiscent of European contemporaries Wolfdietrich Schnurre and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, eminent Japanese novelist Abe (1924-93) imagines a liminal and forlorn compatriot who has grown up somewhere in Manchuria, the child of colonists who now, as Japan’s Asian empire crumbles into dust at the end of World War II, must somehow find his way to a homeland that is alien to him.
Hideo Kojima Says That 'Connection' Is The Theme Of 'Death Stranding'
After Hideo Kojima presented the first trailer for Death Stranding, fans spent countless hours trying to decipher the enigmatic story presented in that video. Fans discovered even more mystery when they carefully studied a promotional image featuring a CGI image of actor Norman Reedus: in the image, the character wears dog tags (or flash drives, depending on who you ask) that have mathematical equations on them.
Leia trecho do romance "O Rosto de um Outro", de Kobo Abe
O acúmulo das noites de insônia transformou-se num caroço que começou a se expandir em meu cenho e, quando a dureza do banco se tornava quase insuportável, fui finalmente conduzido pela enfermeira ao aposento adjacente. A claridade estagnada que atravessava o toldo era de uma brancura leitosa.
Graphics and the uncanny
‘Let us not mince words: the marvellous is always beautiful, anything marvellous is beautiful, in fact only the marvellous is beautiful’ (André Breton, Surrealist Manifesto). At this year’s Brno Biennial, Rick Poynor will be guest curating an exhibition of beautiful, marvellous artwork entitled ‘The Uncanny: Surrealism and Graphic Design’.
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