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Shifting Sands of Existential Self-Captivity: Buddhist and Confucian Solutions in Abe's "Woman in the Dunes"
Shifting Sands of Existential Self-Captivity: Buddhist and Confucian Solutions in Abe's "Woman in the Dunes"

Author(s): David Jones
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: "The Kafkaesque genre of Abe Kobo’s Woman in the Dunes is noticeable immediately to Western readers. But unlike the characters in Kafka’s novels who never seem to learn the nature of their crimes or find their ways into the castle, Abe’s missing person, Niki Jumpei, finds himself in his absence, is liberated in his captivity, and discovers meaning in the absurdity of his existential situation."[...]

  • Issue Year: X/2005
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 230-244
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English