novel story - Well-known Japanese author: Abe Kobo

Kobo Abe, who was born as Kimifusa Abe, a Japanese writer, was in Kita, Tokyo announced in 1924. Abe grew up in Manchuria, where his father had taught in a medical school. In 1941, Abe returned to Japan and began studying at the Imperial University of Tokyo. In 1948 he received a Ph.D., but he said he was not authorized to perform.
In 1947, Abe has published a series of poems and published her first book, the panel referred to the street, "he wrote in memory of his father and friends who had died in Manchuria. Through this work, his reputation grew as a talented writer who was more avant-garde than others of the time. In 1951 Abe won the Akutagawa Prize, a major literary prize in Japan, for his novel "The Crime of Mr. S. Karuma.
What is less known that Kobo Abe was also a member of the Communist Party. But at the time, almost all young Japanese writers. Abe fought the party leadership and was subsequently removed from the party in 1960. Two of his teachers, both anarchist and believed in, that may the reason why Abe has tried, the Communist Party should be resumed.
It was not until 1962, however, that Kobe Abe was internationally popular with his novel "The Woman in the Dunes". He began working with director Hiroshi Teshigahara in the adaptation of certain films, including "Woman in the Dunes".
Abe has often to Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett has been compared because of his views on the people in today's society. His works often have a surreal feeling that she was, which is also similar to the works of Kafka. Abe was very popular worldwide, after "was published in The Woman in the Dunes". Some common themes in the novels are seen by Abe confused or lost identity, loneliness and greed.
He also began training and artists began to direct plays later, he founded his own studio quality in 1973. He also created the music for the piece with his own synthesizer. The rest of his life was largely devoted to writing plays, but he wrote several novels, including "Kangaroo Notebook", his last novel before his death in 1993 of a heart attack following a brain hemorrhage. "Kangaroo" notebook is also known as Abe was the first Japanese writer to use a word processing program to write a novel.
The city itself has an exhibition Tyohu Abe, at their city hall for decades. While the exhibition, visitors could see his work as a photographer, the medium on which he wrote: "Kangaroo" notebook, notebooks, where he wrote his first novels and more. Many writers from around the world have been influenced by his surrealist works. Abe was a true artist when he was a writer, director, poet and photographer. His novels have stood the test of time and Abe is still one of the best writers in Japan viewed of all time.