Abe Kobo's Works Series (set of 4 Volumes in Total)
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This collection of works by Kobo Abe, a representative figure in Japanese existentialist literature and "Japan's Kafka", shows the unique landscape of contemporary Japanese avant-garde literature. Kobo Abe (1924-1993) Japanese novelist and playwright. He graduated from the Medical Department of Tokyo University in 1948 and emerged in the literary world in the early 1950s. The short stories "Red Cocoon" and "The Wall - The Crime of Mr. S. Karma" won the Post-War Literature Prize and the Akutagawa Literary Prize respectively, establishing his position in the history of contemporary Japanese literature. In 1962, Kobo Abe published the novel "Sand Girl" and won the Yomiuri Literature Prize. In 1968, "Sand Girl" won France's Best Foreign Literature Award. There are also novels such as "The Face of Others", "The Burnt Map", "The Box Man" and "Secret Meeting". The novels and screenplays created by Kobo Abe have won many awards at home and abroad, and he was once one of the strong candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works have been translated and published in more than thirty countries and he is one of the most popular Japanese writers. This set includes Abe Kobo's most representative novels "Sand Girl", "Box Man" and "Secret Meeting", as well as a collection of short stories and short stories "The Wall".
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