An Interview with Abe Kobo
1974; University of Wisconsin Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1207771
ISSN1548-9949
AutoresNancy Shields Hardin, Kōbō Abe,
Tópico(s)Theatre and Performance Studies
ResumoA scientific education and keen and lively imagination underlie the creativity of Abe Kobo. As writer of novels, essays, plays, as director of films and theater, and as photographer, he seems have an uncanny ability to contemplate the unimaginable (I, p. 100).' By examining the nightmarish atmosphere of modern life, Abe alters attitudes toward reality much as Lewis Carroll dealt with complicated nonsense in order make sense. Whereas the dreaming Alice's confrontations with a land/Of wonders wild and new shifted her perspective of reality, so too can one veer out of the endless flow of people on Tokyo sidewalk and drop down, down steep underground parking ramp-down into another reality of the Abe Kobo Studio. If one arrives during the rehearsal of play such as The Fake
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