From: David Moran And, yes, Kobo Abe. Overall a strange
gentleman. I've never read him, but I did see the Japanese
movie made out of his "Woman of the Dunes." Weird is about
all I've got to say about that. I don't much understand
movies made after 1960, whether they're American or
Japanese.
--Well, Kobo Abe was a surrealist, very much in the Kafka
tradition, and WOMAN IN THE DUNES, either the novel (in
translation) or the wonderful film version, isn't too
terribly like most of what we discuss here...though we do get
sublimated lust, small-town treachery, a lone male wanderer
who finds himself trapped...hmm...
TM
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