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Le mythe de la caverne de Platon revisité. Mettez-vous une boite en carton sur la tête et le haut du corps, avec une mince fente pour les yeux et une visière en plastique, et promenez-vous ainsi dans les rues de Tokyo. Kobo Abe décrit les avatars de cette drôle de machine à voir le monde tout en étant en lui mais extérieur à lui. Bref, un roman philosophique sur la perte d'identité, mais sans l'humour d'un Franz Kafka (La métamorphose) ou la férocité d'un Gunther Grass (Le tambour). On s'y perd un peu, entre les vrais, les faux, les vrais-faux et les faux-vrais hommes-boites. Au final, quel est le vrai, quel est le faux? C'est peut-être le message que voulait délivrer l'auteur au bout de ses 271 pages, mais j'avoue que je me suis sérieusement ennuyé. Tout le monde ne peut pas être prof de philo... ... Read more

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Chapters: Yukio Mishima, Yukio Ninagawa, Takeshi Kawamura, Kōbō Abe, Mori Ōgai, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Shūji Terayama, Izumo No Okuni, Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Tomoyoshi Murayama, Hisashi Inoue, Kafū Nagai, Yoshii Isamu, Fumiko Enchi, Noda Hideki, Masao Kume, Jinzai Kiyoshi, Takemoto Gidayū, Mantarō Kubota, Toshiki Okada, Mitsuo Nakamura, Juran Hisao, Miri Yu, Tamagusuku Chōkun, Nagayo Yoshirō, Hideji Hōjō, Tadashi Suzuki, Kurata Hyakuzō, Murai Shimako, Kunio Kishida, Hirohito Gotō, Yutaka Mafune, Kōki Mitani. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yukio Mishima Mishima Yukio) was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka Hiraoka Kimitake, January 14, 1925November 25, 1970), a Japanese author, poet and playwright, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku. Mishima in his childhood (ca. April 1931)Mishima was born in the Yotsuya district of Tokyo (now part of Shinjuku). His father was Azusa Hiraoka, a government official, and his mother, Shizue, was the daughter of a school principal in Tokyo. His paternal grandparents were Jotar and Natsuko Hiraoka. He had a younger sister named Mitsuko, who died of typhus, and a younger brother named Chiyuki. Mishima's early childhood was dominated by the shadow of his grandmother, Natsu, who took the boy and separated him from his immediate family for several years. Natsu was the illegitimate granddaughter of Matsudaira Yoritaka, the daimyo of Shishido in Hitachi Province, and had been raised in the household of Prince Arisugawa Taruhito; she maintained considerable aristocratic pretensions even after marrying Mishima's grandfather, a bureaucrat who had made his fortune in the newly opened colonial frontier and who rose to become Governor-General of Karafuto. She was also prone to violence and morbid o...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=101631 ... Read more

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Catalogue from an exhibition held at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and at Columbia University, 1996 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Kobo Abe, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2933 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Shintarō Ishihara, Kenzaburō Ōe, Kōbō Abe, Yoko Ogawa, Taeko Kono, Shusaku Endo, Ryū Murakami, Jun Ishikawa, Takeshi Kaikō, Kyoko Hayashi, Genpei Akasegawa, Jun Takami, Nakayama Gishu, Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Kenji Nakagami, Kō Machida, Miri Yu, Yoko Tawada, Yasushi Inoue, Nobuko Takagi, Akiko Itoyama, Seichō Matsumoto, So Aono, Tsuneko Nakazato, Shuichi Yoshida, Chiya Fujino, Minako Oba, Keizo Hino, Eiki Matayoshi, Saiichi Maruya, Taku Miki, Gomi Kosuke, Nobuo Kojima, Junzo Shono, Yoshinori Yagi, Hitomi Kanehara, Shimizu Motoyoshi, Ashihei Hino, Yoriko Shono, Hikaru Okuizumi, Hiromi Kawakami, Michiko Yamamoto, Noboru Tsujihara, Ikezawa Natsuki, Risa Wataya, Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, Morio Kita, Yoshikichi Furui, Fumiko Kometani, Hitonari Tsuji, Kazushi Hosaka, Mieko Kawakami, Yangji Lee, Yuichi Takai, Keiichiro Hirano, Nanae Aoyama, Teru Miyamoto, Kazushige Abe, Tetsushi Suwa, Tatsuhiro Oshiro, Masuo Ikeda, Shun Medoruma, Toshiyuki Horie, Takami Itō, Mineo Higashi, Kenji Maruyama. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Shintar Ishihara Ishihara Shintar, born September 30, 1932) is a Japanese author, politician and the governor of Tokyo since 1999. Shintar was born in Suma-ku, Kobe. His father Kiyoshi was an employee, later a general manager, of a shipping company. Shintar grew up in Zushi. In 1952, he entered Hitotsubashi University, and graduated in 1956. Just two months before graduation, Shintar won the Akutagawa Prize (Japan's most prestigious literary prize) for the novel Season of the Sun Taiy no kisetsu). His brother Yujiro played a supporting role in the screen adaptation of the novel, and the two soon became the center of a youth-oriented cult. In the early 1960s, he concentrated on writing, including plays, novels, and a musical version of Treasure Isla...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=318121 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Chujiro Hayashi, Sagen Ijizuka, Kōan Ogata, Shibasaburo Kitasato, Kōbō Abe, Choei Takano, Tatsuji Inouye, Hideyo Noguchi, Mikao Usui, Sunao Tawara, Sensai Nagayo, Shinobu Ishihara, Sadamu Yokogawa, Hiroshi Ojima. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Chujiro Hayashi de nationalité japonaise, chrétien méthodiste, né le 15 septembre 1880, décédé le 11 mai 1940. Il est généralement considéré comme un des quatre principaux disciples de Mikao Usui (fondateur du Reiki), avec Ushida, Taketomi et Eguchi. Hayashi était commandant de marine, médecin acuponcteur dans la Navale Impériale du Japon. Il devint maître Reiki en 1925 à 47 ans sous la conduite de Mikao Usui et utilisait uniquement le Reiki pour traiter ses patients. Il ouvrit une clinique Reiki à Tokyo en 1931, avec des 10 lits et un centre de formation. Il codifia et simplifia les techniques du Reiki de Mikao Usui selon les vues de l'acuponcture et élimina les aspects de la méthode liés au culte impérial nippon, préférant une approche plus mystique dans sa méthode de pratique du Reiki, notamment avec des aspects typiquement bouddhistes (les symboles ont été introduits par Eguchi et Hayashi, Usui ne pratiquant que les lignes de sons Kototama correspondantes). Hayashi a initié entre 13 à 16 maîtres à sa méthode, dont Madame Hawayo Takata à quelques aspects de la méthode du Dr Usui (selon le certificat notarié de cette dernière), qui amena le Reiki aux États-Unis. Selon certains, Hayashi se suicida par Seppuku, plutôt que d'aller à la guerre, pour d'autres il arrêta les battements de son cœur par sa seule volonté en présence de ses élèves. 1925 - Juin 1925, Chujiro Hayashi (15 septembre 1880 - 11 mai 1940), un officier en retraite de la Marine, chrétien...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Kōbō Abe, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Shunrō Oshikawa, Kōshū Tani, Chōhei Kambayashi, Hisashi Inoue, Gakuto Mikumo, Sakyo Komatsu, Hiroyuki Morioka, Akimitsu Takagi, Nagaru Tanigawa, Unno Juza, Azusa Noa, Fujio Ishihara, Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Haruka Takachiho, Hideaki Sena, Mariko Ōhara, Masami Fukushima, Tetsu Yano, Shinji Kajio, Baku Yumemakura, Ryō Hanmura, Yoji Kondo, Shinichi Hoshi, Hōsuke Nojiri, Masaki Yamada, Gorō Masaki, Mizuhito Akiyama, Akira Hori, Ken Kuronuma, Waku Ōba, Chiaki Kawamata, Ryu Mitsuse, Issui Ogawa, Hiroe Suga, Kazuma Shinjō, Taku Mayumura, Motoko Arai, Norio Nakai, Yūichi Sasamoto, Musashi Kanbe. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 121. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kb Abe Abe Kb), pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (Abe Kimifusa, March 7, 1924 January 22, 1993) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. His name is romanized as Kobo Abe in Vintage International's English-language editions of his book, while Columbia University Press offers Three Plays by Kb Abe. Abe was born in Kita, Tokyo and grew up in Mukden (now Shen-yang) in Manchuria. His father was a physician who taught at the medical college. Abe returned to Japan in 1941 and began studies at Tokyo Imperial University in 1943. He graduated in 1948 with a medical degree, on the condition that he would not practice. He was first published as a poet with Mumei Shishu ("Poems of an unknown poet") in 1947. The next year he published his first novel, Owarishi michi no shirube ni ("The Road Sign at the End of the Street") which established his reputation. He worked as an avant-garde novelist and playwright, but it was not until he published The Woman in the Dunes in 1962 that he won widespread international acclaim. In the 1960s, he collaborated with Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara in ada...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=190435 ... Read more