An E-book of "The Face of Another" by Kobo Abe?
Q. Do you know where to find an E-book of this book? I just need it. Thank you!
Asked by ten-seventeen - Thu Sep 10 04:55:45 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. There are no free LEGAL ebooks. It is not fair or legal when someone scans a book and parks it on a pirate website. The estate of Kobo Abe has to decide that they want to give the books away for it to be legal.
Answered by redunicorn - Thu Sep 10 07:39:19 2009

Can this source be considered criticism on an author?
Q. It's a book, but I managed to find a preview on Google Books. The one I'm looking a specifically is Abe Kobo on page 2. Is this criticism? I just want to make sure. Thank you.
Asked by fchaudhry268 - Sun Oct 26 11:29:17 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. It looks more like a biography to me, but I'm not an expert. Try this website: Good luck!
Answered by sophicmuse - Mon Oct 27 00:31:42 2008

Has a book ever changed your life?
Q. I just finished The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe a few days ago, and I really can't stop thinking about it. It was so deeply depressing and profound. It was like a little revelation for me, and made it's made me think really existentially for a while. Has any book ever had a really lasting personal effect on you, or changed the way you look at things?
Asked by Flux = Rad - Fri Apr 2 22:32:39 2010 - - 11 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Brave New World. I was going through rough times at the time and was studying molecular biology because I wanted to experiment with it in the future to make us better. Actually the word I used to used was perfect. It helped me realize that such perfection could not be achieved without some sort of side effect. I changed my major and now I'm studying foreign languages and hope to still help society in the future with a different approach. A future job at the UN would be awesome.
Answered by Steph - Fri Apr 2 22:36:34 2010

Japanese literature?
Q. I've recently discovered Japanese author Yoko Ogawa and was more than impressed by her novel Ringfinger (not translated into English (?)) and her short stories. I did not like her rather esoteric novel Museum of Silence (not translated into English (?)), though. I also very much appreciated Kobo Abe's Inter Ice Age 4 and did not like Banana Yoshimoto. On my list are Yasushi Inoue's Hunting Gun, Ice Wall (?), and Black Flood (?) and Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland. Can you recommend any other books by the above mentioned authors (except for Murakami) or other (important) Japanese authors?
Asked by msmiligan - Wed Jul 26 05:08:43 2006 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I am English and live in Japan. I have found many good translations of Japanese books at the local library, most of them published by Tuttle Publishing - here is there address, take a look - https://peripluspublishin ggroup.com/tuttle/ Though the most interesting story I read by a Japanese author was ''The Bridegroom was a Dog'' by Yoko Tawada.
Answered by Felix - Wed Jul 26 05:17:53 2006

Where should I start with this list?
Q. So I've got these books: Nietzsche > The Twilight of the Idols > Beyond Good and Evil > Thus Spoke Zarathustra Kobo Abe > Woman in the Dunes Bradbury > Dandelion Wine Bulgakov > Heart of a Dog Collection of Haiku Hemingway > The Old Man and the Sea Camus > The Fall Kipling > The Cat that Walked by Himself Cocteau > Orpheus Marquez > Living to Tell the Tale Palahniuk > Fight Club Resnick > Manamuki Wilde > The Picture of Dorian Gray Remarque > All Quiet on the Western Front > A Time to Love and a Time to Die > Three Comrades Rilke > Letter to a Young Poet So I was just offered a bunch of books and I chose these ones. I am not sure what I should read, what I should skip, where to start and so on. Would be thankful for any… [cont.]
Asked by Solveiga - Sat Sep 13 16:43:20 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Firstly, apparently the girl above me can't read. Secondly: Ernest Hemingway is really great. Read what you have and then read the short story "Hills Like White Elephants". It's amazing once it all comes together. Then try out The Picture of Dorian Gray. I had a friend once that got me really into Oscar Wilde, and I will never be able to thank him enough.
Answered by Mal - Sun Sep 14 00:25:00 2008