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Женщина в песках - Kōbō Abe
Женщина в песках
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9785367019179
Publisher: Амфора
Pages no: 416
Edition language: Russian
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konstantinapapazoglou
konstantinapapazoglou rated it
2.5
Niki Jumpei is a teacher, but his true passion is entomology. His biggest dream is to discover a new type of insect and have his name written in the encyclopedias of that science. After thorough study he has decided that his luck will be in the desert, in the sand it's very possible that a beetle wo...
Nicole~
Nicole~ rated it
4.5 The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
Without the threat of punishment there is no joy in flight. In Kobo Abe's fantasy world of The Woman in the Dunes, an amateur entomologist on vacation finds himself in a remote coastal village built amid deeply undulating dunes. There, he is tricked by a lonely widow and her neighboring villagers,...
nouveau
nouveau rated it
4.0 The Woman in the Dunes
kAFKA-esque allegory; man is trapped in a sand pit of seeming endlessness...subject to numerous readings, many of which seem either stupid or absurd.but then the book is absurd.a good read!
Amadan na Briona
Amadan na Briona rated it
4.0
Since I started reading both more avidly and more widely several years ago, I've spent more time analyzing different genres, different kinds of authors, and different kinds of literature. In Jane Smiley's 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, she makes a number of observations about how classic French no...
Lotus wild over sakura
Lotus wild over sakura rated it
4.0 The Woman in the Dunes
While reading this book my thoughts were constantly racing towards Camus’s ‘The Myth of Sisyphus” "From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all."Premises of hope, alienation and irrationality reeking from every printed word induced me into inferring Kobo A...
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