Kōbō Abe

Person · Open Library

Born

7 March 1924

Died

22 January 1993

Works

170

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Film & TV

Writing · Kita, Tokyo, Japan

Kōbō Abe, pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (March 7, 1924 – January 22, 1993) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities. Among the honors bestowed on him were the Akutagawa Prize in 1951 for The Crime of…

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

Japan

Active from

1924

Active to

1993

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3

Total plays

77

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning

   · 2018 · cited 5,064x

2. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

   · 2016 · cited 4,394x

3. Postoperative pancreatic fistula: An international study group (ISGPF) definition

   · 2005 · cited 3,711x

4. The 2016 update of the International Study Group (ISGPS) definition and grading of postoperative pancreatic fistula: 11 Years After

   · 2017 · cited 3,678x

5. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger^*

   · 2017 · cited 3,592x

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Quotes

• “The barrenness of sand, as it is usually pictured, was not caused by simple dryness, but apparently was due to the ceaseless movement that made it inhospitable to all living things. What a difference compared with the dreary way human beings clung together year in year out.”
• “He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.”
• “When a castaway collapses from hunger and thirst it is fear of physical want rather than a real want, they say. Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.”
• “More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in.”
• “It goes on, terrifyingly repetitive. One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.”
• “Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.”

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Wikidata facts

Image

Kobo Abe 01.jpg

Number of children

1

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