1948 12

34
1951 5
1962 1967
678
9
10

1 haisen (go) = nfrngere (dup nfrngerea Japoniei)

2 konran (ki) =dezordine, confuzie, haos (perioad de haos de dup rzboi)
3 dannen suru=a abandona, a se resemna
4shi suru=a inteniona; a scrie, a nota; cf. intenie: (shib), voin, intenie: (ishi); scrisoare de
intenie: (shib riysho)
5 hanzai= crim
6 alegoric
7 fshi=satir, aluzie; cf.: ~~ni taisuru fshi, satir la adresa ~~, (fshi gaka), caricaturist;
sinonime: (hiniku), ironie fa de cineva
8 kiku= verb, a avea efect (ca medicament), a fi eficient n ..., a fi plin de...; sensul aici este plin de
alegorie i satir
9 hyban=reputaie; hyban ga takai, a avea o bun reputaie
10 eiky=influen; ...ni eiky wo ukeru, a fi influenat de ...

1951 111213
141516171950 18
1920212223
2425
1960 261967
271973

11 kysant=partid comunist
12 chishikijin=intelectual
13 jiy=libertate
14 (yori yoi) sekai= o lume (mai bun)
15 motome=dorind, cutnd (de la vb. motomeru, a cuta,a dori)
16 kysanshugi=comunism
17 idakimashita = idaku, a mbria (abstract)
18 kj=fabric
19 rdsha=muncitori
20 taiken=experien; taiken suru/dekiru, a experimenta, a tri
21 tasai-na=variat
22 seikatsu taiken=experien de via
23 shinjitsu ni motozuita=bazat pe adevr; motozuku, a se baza pe
24 shinbunteki-na=jurnalistic; shinbun, ziar
25 buntai=stil literar

28293031 1977 American Academy of

Arts and Sciences 32
Moetsukita chizu, The Ruined Map is the story of an unnamed detective, hired by a beautiful, alcoholic
woman, to find clues related to the disappearance of her husband. In the process, the detective is given a
map (a ruined one), supposedly to help him, but which turns out in the end to be more like a metaphor of
the guidelines one should have in life. The impossibility of finding relevant clues to help him solve the
mystery leads the main character to an existential crisis, which builds slowly from inside and finally puts
him in the position of identifying himself with the man he was supposed to find.
Tanin no kao (Faa celuilalt) : A plastics scientist loses his face in an accident and proceeds to obtain a
new face for himself. With a new 'mask', the protagonist sees the world in a new way and even goes so far
as to have a clandestine affair with his estranged wife. There is also a subplot following a hibakusha (
, victims of Hiroshima radiation) woman who has suffered burns to the right side of her face. In the
novel, the protagonist sees this character in a film.
Akai Mayu, "The Red Cocoon" begins with a man walking down a street discussing with himself the
problem of not having a house to go home to. The narrator, who is also the main character, jumps abruptly
from topic to topic throughout the story - he wonders if he has just forgotten his house and proceeds to
knock on the door of a random house to find out if this is what has happened. After he has explained his
plight to the woman who answers the door, he begins arguing with her over having proof that it is not his
house. Shortly thereafter, the narrator begins to ponder whether or not things such as concrete pipes or
park benches are his house. Deciding that they are on their way to belonging to someone or that they
belong to everyone and not just one person, he begins to wonder if anything exists that belongs to no one.
At the end of the story, he finds that one of his legs begins to unwind into a silk thread and wrap him up in
a
cocoon.
Abe's character in "The Red Cocoon" seems to be having problems with ownership of houses and other
pieces of property. The question is asked, "Even if it isn't mine, can't there be just one thing that doesn't
26 geki=pies de teatru
27 enshutsu suru= a pune n scen o pies, a produce o pies
28 haiy gakk=coal de actorie, cf. haiy=actor
29 kantoku=regizor de teatru sau film
30 yakuwari wo toru= a-i asuma rolul de ....
31 meiy= onoare, meiyoutoshite, ca onoare, a fost ....
32 sanka suru= a participa la ......

belong to anyone?" This question appears to have socialist undertones as if one were in support of
everything being everyone's. A strange yet interesting parallelism is with Samuel Beckett's character in
Watt. The character has a very hard time dealing with the issue of time and is isolated because of that
problem. Similarly, Abe's character is isolated because of his lack of understanding possessions. The last
line of the story is of some interest, however. Here, the narrator has been completely enveloped in the
cocoon and his whole body has been unwound and incorporated into the cocoon itself. A policeman
comes by and sees the cocoon lying on railroad tracks and picks it up. The policeman takes the cocoon
and places it in his son's toy box. Earlier in the story, the policeman had showed up in a small role to
forcefully remove the narrator from a park bench.
Piesele lui Abe Kobo:

1955
1955
1955
1957[6]
1958

1965

1967
1967
1971
1971
1973

1974

Jikan no gake

Stsuksu

Seifuku

Dorei gari

Kaisoku sen

Bou ni natta otoko

Yuurei wa koko ni
iru

Omae nimo tsumi

ga aru

Tomodachi

Enomoto takeaki

Mihitsu no koi

Gaido bukku

Ai no megane wa
iro garasu

Midori iro no
sutokkingu

Donald
Keene
Donald
Keene

Collected in The Man Who Turned

Into A Stick: Three Related Plays
Collected in The Man Who Turned
Into A Stick: Three Related Plays

The Man Who Turned Into A Donald

Stick
Keene

Collected in The Man Who Turned

Into A Stick: Three Related Plays

The Cliff of Time

Suitcase
Uniforms
Slave Hunting
The Speedy Ship

The Ghost Is Here

Donald
Keene

Collected in Three Plays by Kb

Abe

You, Too, Are Guilty

Ted T.
Takaya

Collected in Modern Japanese

Drama: An Anthology

Friends

Donald
Keene

Performed in English in
Honolulu[1]
Adapted into a film in 1988

Donald
Keene

Collected in Three Plays by Kb

Abe

Donald
Keene

Collected in Three Plays by Kb

Abe

Takeaki Enomoto
Involuntary Homicide
Guide Book
Loving Glasses Are Colored
Ones

Green Stockings

1975

1976
1977

1978
1979

Ue (Slave Hunting, New

James R.
U (Shin dorei
Version), The Animal Hunter Brandon
gari)
GUIDE
The Guide Man, GUIDE
BOOK II
BOOK II
Annai nin
GUIDE
The underwater city, GUIDE
BOOK III
BOOK III
Suichu toshi
S

SKaruma shi no The crime of S. Karuma

hanzai

Kozou wa shinda An Elephant Calf Is Dead

Eseuri:
Translations
available

Notes

() Poetry and Poets

1944 Shi to shijin [Ishiki to
(Consciousness and the
muishiki]
Unconscious)

Richard F.
Calichman

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

Theory and Practice in

1954 Bungaku ni okeru riron to
Literature
jissen

Richard F.
Calichman

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

:
The Hand of a Calculator with
Richard F.
1955 Mj no kokoro ni keisanki the Heart of a Beast: What Is
Calichman
no te wo: Bungaku to wa Literature?
nanika

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

Richard F.
Calichman

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

Does the Visual Image Destroy Richard F.

1960 Eiz wa gengo no kabe wo
the Walls of Language?
Calichman
hakai suru ka

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

1960
Geijutsu no kakumei:
Geijutsu und no riron

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

Year Japanese Title

1957

Amerika hakken

English Title

Discovering America

Artistic Revolution: Theory of Richard F.

the Art Movement
Calichman


:
Possibilities for Education

1965 Gendai ni okeru kyiku no Today: On the Essence of

kansei: Ningen sonzai no Human Existence
honshitsu ni furete

Richard F.
Calichman

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

1966

Rinjin wo koeru mono

Beyond the Neighbor

Richard F.
Calichman

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

1968

Miritar rukku

The Military Look

Richard F.
Calichman

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

Passport of Heresy

Richard F.
Calichman

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

The Frontier Within

Richard F.
Calichman

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

Richard F.
Calichman

Collected in The
Frontier Within:
Essays by Abe Kb

1968
Itan no pasupto

1968
Uchi naru henky

1969

:
Zoku: Uchi naru henky

The Frontier Within, Part II

1975

Warau tsuki

The Laughing Moon

Romane:
Year Japanese Title

English Title

1948 Owarishi michi no

shirube ni

At the Guidepost at the

End of the Road

1954

Kiga dmei

Translations
available

Notes

E. Dale Saunders

[1]

Starving Unions

Animals Are Going To

1957 Kemonotachi wa koky
Their Home
wo mezasu
1959

Inter Ice Age 4

Dai yon kan hyki

1960

Ishi no me

Stony Eyes

1962

Suna no onna

The Woman in the Dunes

E. Dale Saunders

Adapted into an
international film[1]

1964

Tanin no kao

The Face of Another

E. Dale Saunders

[1]

1964

Enomoto takeaki

Takeaki Enomoto

1966

Ningen sokkuri

The Double of Human

Being

1967

Moetsukita chizu

The Ruined Map

E. Dale Saunders

[1]

1973

Hako otoko

The Box Man

E. Dale Saunders

[1]

1977

Mikkai

Secret Rendezvous

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

[1]

1984

Hakobune sakura maru

The Ark Sakura

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

[1]

1991

Kangar nto

Kangaroo Notebook

Maryellen Toman
Mori

1994

Tobu otoko

The Flying Man

Nuvele:
Year Japanese Title

English Title

Translations available Notes

The Deaf Girl

Andrew Horvat

Collected in Four Stories by

Kobo Abe

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

Collected in Beyond the Curve

1949

Oshimusume

1949

Dendrocacalia
Dendorokakariya

1949

Yume no tb

1950
Akai mayu

Incomplete

The dream escape

The Red Cocoon

Lane Dunlop

Collected in A Late
chrysanthemum: twenty-one

stories from the Japanese

1950
Kzui

1951

Mah no chku

The Flood

Lane Dunlop

Collected in A Late
chrysanthemum: twenty-one
stories from the Japanese

The Magic Chalk

Alison Kibrick

Collected in The Showa

Anthology: Modern Japanese
Short Stories

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

Excerpt collected in Beyond the

Curve

S
The WallThe

1951
KabeSKaruma crime of S. Karma
shi no hanzai
1951

Chinnyusha

Intruders

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

Collected in Beyond the Curve

1951

Shijin no Shgai

The Life of a Poet

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

Collected in Beyond the Curve

1951

Ueta hifu

The Starving Skin

1952

Noa no hakobune

Noah's Ark

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

Collected in Beyond the Curve

1952

Suichu toshi

The underwater city

1954

Inu

The Dog

Andrew Horvat

Collected in Four Stories by

Kobo Abe

1954

Henkei no kiroku

Record of a
Transformation

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

Collected in Beyond the Curve

1950

The Stick

Lane Dunlop

Collected in A Late
chrysanthemum: twenty-one
stories from the Japanese

1956

R62
Inventions by
R62 g no hatsumei No.R62

1957

Yuwakusha

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

Collected in Beyond the Curve

1957
Yume no heishi

Beguiled
The dream soldier

First translation, 1973 First translation collected in

by Andrew Horvat
Four Stories by Kobo Abe
Second translation,
Second translation collected in

1991 by Juliet Winters

Beyond the Curve
Carpenter
1957

Namari no tamago

The egg of Pb

1958

Shisha

The special envoy

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

Collected in Beyond the Curve

1960

Kake

The Bet

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

Collected in Beyond the Curve

1961

Mukankei na shi

An irrelevant death

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

Collected in Beyond the Curve

1966

Kabu no muk

Beyond the Curve

Juliet Winters
Carpenter

First collection published in

English[1]

1964

Toki no gake

The Cliff of Time

Andrew Horvat

Collected in Four Stories by

Kobo Abe