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The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Three Related Plays
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The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Three Related Plays Hardcover - 1975

by Abe, Kobo


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  • Title The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Three Related Plays
  • Author Abe, Kobo
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 84 Pages with three Pictures 8�,
  • Publisher University of Tokyo Press, TOKYO
  • Date 1975
  • ISBN 9780860081470
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The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Three Related Plays

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by ABE, KOBO

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Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1978. Original Japanese title: 'Bo ni natta otoko'. Translated by Donald Keene. Contents: 1). Donald Keene: Introduction. 2). Suitcase (birth). 3). The cliff of time (process). 4). 'The man who turned into a stick' (death). 5). Author's postface. 3 b/w plates. Kobo Abe (pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (1924 -1993) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities. 'The Man Who Turned Into A Stick' (Bo ni natta otoko) is a one-act play written by Kobo Abe. It is the third of three plays written over twelve years (1957-1969) meant to symbolize the different stages of life, usually shown together. Kiin Donarudo, formerly Donald Lawrence Keene (*1922) is a Japanologist, scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture. X… Read More
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The Man Who Turned into a Stick

by Abe, Kobo; Keene, Donald (trans)

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by Abe, Kobo; Translated by Donald Keene

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Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1975. SCARCE. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, small crease at top edge front panel, small bookstore sticker top corner front panel, tidy prior owner name in ink verso front end page at bottom corner. Original Japanese title "Bo ni natta otoko". . First Edition in English. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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