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Bibliography

Bibliography Summary: Unperfect list.
Available books in Japan: Unperfect list and infantile descriptions.
Manuscript of a Fragment: 2 pieces of manuscripit of a fragment written by Abe Kobo himself. Its price is 1250 dollars!

Inter Ice Age 4: This is of Hippocrates Project in Medical Center of New York University.
BAZAAR Eichbornverlag: Introduction of The Ruined Map in Germany.
Enomoto Takeaki: A brief introduction of Abe's historical novel, Enomoto Takeaki by Sugiyama Sigeo, professor of Science History.
Secret Rendevous: A book review of Secret Rendevous in Bookcase, e-zine.
The Kangaroo Notebook: A book review of Kangaroo Note in Salon1999, e-zine.
An introduction of The Magic Chalk: The Magic Chalk is the fantastic short story by early Abe Kobo.
On The Magic Chalk: An impression on The Magic Chalk, by Jessica Murguia.
The Woman in the Dunes and The Boxman: Introductions to Japanese novels by Alex During, who is a student of Leibzig University and had been in Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
The Boxman: Midnight TV show, Bungaku toifu Koto (On the great Literature) introduced Abe's The Boxman on June 28 1994.

Filmography of Abe Kobo: An article in Internet Film Database.
The Woman in the Dunes: An introduction with ratings in Internet Film Database.
The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Two stage photos of The Man Who Turned into a Stick presented in Indiana State University.
Review on The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Review on The Man Who Turned into a Stick presented in Street Theatre, UK.
Little Elephant: Record of presentation of Abe's Little Elephant in 1978.

German Philosophy and Abe Kobo: Mr. Arimura Takahiro pointed out Abe Kobo's first novel, For a Signpost at the End of Road(1948) influenced by Heidegger, Nietzsche, Rilke and Kafka. Original title: Der Einfluss der deutschen Literatur und Philosophie auf die Werke des japanischen Schriftstellers - Kobo ABE.
Fake Fish: Introduciton of Nancy K Shields's interesting book, Fake Fish: on theatre of Abe Kobo. She was following activity of the Abe Studio, Abe Kobo's own theatre company.
Transcending Modernism: Third chapter of The Philosophy of Symbiosis by Kurokawa Kisho, Japanese famous architect.
The Question of Identity Crisis in Abe Kobo: Summary of lecture by Julie Brock at Nitifutu Kaikan (House of French-Japanese), Ebisu, Tokyo on March 13 1996.
The Photographer in Fiction: On Box Man.
Abe Kobo and The Woman in the Dunes: An impression by Kujirai Hideyuki.
Magical Realism: An introduction of Magical Realism refering Abe Kobo.
Creative Masochism As An Approach To Comparative Avant-Pop: Comparison with Tanizaki Junichiro by Tatsumi Takayuki.
Postwar Japan through film and fiction

Mailing List for Abe Kobo: Mailing List promoted by Simizu Singo. Only Japanese.

Abe Kobo Archive: Abe Kobo page in LongIreland University site.
Boxman's Homepage: Simizu Singo's homepage for Abe Kobo fans, featuring a guestbook titled Goikenban, to which you can freely contribute.
The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture: Homepage of The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University.

Teshigawara Hirosi: Mr. Teshigawara Hirosi, director of The Woman in the Dunes, is now grand master of Sogetu-ryu Ikebana (flower arrangements) method.
Sama soruja: Intorducion of Mr. Teshigawara Hirosi by office of International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Donald Keen: Donald Keen is an old friend of Abe Kobo and traslated most of his works.

Anouncement of the commemoration
The commemoration starts
Lectures forward the commemoration: Anouncement of lectures by Paul Anderer and Donald Keene at Japan Society, New York, on Apr 9 and 19, 1996.
Annual Meeting Issue of Indiana University
Newsletter by Media Japan

Illustrations dedicated for Dowcy, Kiriko and Abe Kobo: Surrealistic illustrations by Yamamoto Akiyosi.

This page was created on May11 1996; Last updated March 9 1998