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The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe ebook
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307813738, 9780307813732
Format: epub
Page: 0

Hiroshi Teshigahara's greatest work, Woman in the Dunes, circa 1964, is a brilliant film. Locals share tales of daredevils who've ascended ice dunes only to crash through and break an arm or a leg on ice jags, or succumb to hypothermia, or nearly drown within a frosted tomb. The story continues with the man reaching some signs of habitation at the coast as the landscape gradually becomes more sandy and barren. How will the man manage to escape his imprisonment? I am an admirer of Japanese cinema from the 40s, 50s and 60s, but never would I consider myself a connoisseur, not even close. He takes off for the sea; the closer he gets, the stranger the landscape becomes. Woman of the Dunes, Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 film, seems at times to be a cross-pollination between an imported French existentialism with the native Japanese notion of wabi sabi. Probably because it was on sale. The road he is on continually rises; everything else does. He turns on the woman hoping she can provide some answers on how he can escape. If Pitfall was a walk into the abyss, Woman in the Dunes is a permanent vacation. A woman living below (the "woman in the dunes", Kishida Kyōko) will take him in for the night. Continuing the stooory of 1995, for some reason or other I had bought this book by Kobo (The Meat) Abé. Woman in the Dunes – Chapter 2 Section 3 continued p.10-11. It is difficult to overlook the parallels with Hiroshi Teshigahara's art-film "The Woman in the Dunes", that repulsed a large part of the western audience with its unusual ending that was perceived as conformism. He tries several times to climb up the sand dunes but he fails each time. Celebrated Japanese avant-garde filmmaker, Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 film Woman in the Dunes is available in it's entirety on youtube. The Woman in the Dunes (砂の女 Suna no onna, literally “Sand woman,” also translated as The Woman of the Dunes) is directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the novel of the same name by Kōbō Abe. Trying to find lodgings for the night, he is helped by men of the village to descend a sand pit leading to a hut using a rope ladder. Which also explains why I didn't read it.