La donna di sabbia

Suna No Onna = Sand Woman = The Woman in the Dunes, Kōbō Abe The Woman in the Dunes is a novel by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe, published in 1962. It won the 1962 Yomiuri Prize for literature, and an English translation and a film adaptation appeared in 1964. In 1955, Jumpei Niki, a school teacher fro Leggi tutto

This book is horrifically claustrophobic and eerie. How much of our lives consist of frantically trying to stay afloat? Life can be as fruitless as a man trapped under sand dunes digging to live...or living to dig. Do we work to live or live to work? If you think being held hostage in sand is fantast Leggi tutto

A Japanese classic. A lonely young man is an amateur entomologist and schoolteacher. He hopes to find a new species of sand beetle, so he goes off on a weekend expedition near a beach town where the houses are buried in pits by the ever-shifting stands. He asks about a place to stay and reaches his

Αριστουργηματικό έργο που γίνεται ακόμη πιο συγκλονιστικό καθώς διαχέεται ολόκληρο απο ΑΡΩΜΑ ΚΑΦΚΑ & ΑΝΕΠΑΙΣΘΗΤΗ ΑΠΟΧΡΩΣΗ ΚΑΜΥ. Σουρεαλιστικές καταστάσεις, ατομικοί ψυχαναγκασμοί, σκληρές ευαισθησίες και παγιδευμένες υπάρξεις μέσα στους προσωπικούς και κοινωνικούς εφιάλτες. Σισύφεια προσπάθεια λύτρω Leggi tutto

کوبو آبه در سال ۱۹۴۳ «کیمیفوسا آبه» که قرار بود بعدها نام قلمی «کوبو آبه» را برای خودش انتخاب کند، به اجبار پدرش که پزشک بود، و نیز به خاطر آن که پزشکان از خدمت سربازی معاف بودند، وارد دانشگاه پزشکی شد. بدون آن که در نظر بگیرد پزشکی چقدر برای کسی چون او مناسب است که از کودکی عاشق خواندن کافکا، داستای Leggi tutto

This book tell the story of an entomologist that, in his search for a specific beetle, ends up trapped by local villagers in a huge sand hole with a woman, where he is forced to work gathering sand. As time pass by, his emotions and sanity begin to get twisted. In his struggle to escape both human a Leggi tutto

Had my arachnophobia been replaced by Ammophobia (fear of sand) there was a certain moment in Kōbō Abe's 1962 existential fable my hands would have turned extra clammy and my thumping heart would have likely jumped out of my chest to find safety. What an odd story this was. It reads something like a Leggi tutto

When we mix surrealistic Kafkaesque climate with existential questions about sense of human being then we get something like The woman in the dunes. Tale about a man obsessed or maybe possessed with sand who during the trip to the sea is trapped in the dunes in a cave inhabited by a lonely woman.

داستان مردی که توی کلبه‌ای شنی گیر می‌افته و درصورتی که خونه رو شن‌روبی نکنه کشته می‌شه. درواقع مرد رو مجبور به موندن توی خونه کردن. حالا این مرد یا باید فرار کنه، یا باید به این سرنوشت تن بده (برای از بین نرفتن کیف و حالِ خوندن کتاب، خیلی خیلی داستان و المان‌هاش رو خلاصه کردم) مساله اینجاست که این شن Leggi tutto

یک نکته یک سوال نکته: مرده (آقای نیکی) خیلی قد کوتاه بود . من از مرد کوتاه خوشم نمیاد حتی اگه حشره شناس باشه. سوال: چرا " زن در ریگ روان " و نه "مرد در ریگ روان "؟ .. صوتیش رو گوش دادم از آوای بوف، اجرا وحشتناک بد بود Leggi tutto