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23 de may. de 2017 · Beasts Head for Home is as riveting and as unforgiving as the frigid Civil War wilderness in which it is set. Asian Review of Books - Peter Gordon Calichman’s superb translation of Abe’s semiautobiographical novel brings us a Kafkaesque world of displacement where settlers of Manchuria undergo the loss of home, identity, and belonging after the collapse of the Japanese empire.
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Beasts Head for Home, Abe Kobo, Richard F Calichman (trans) Abe’s language is, at least in the translation by Richard F Calichman (who also edited The Frontier Within, a collection of Abe’s essays), both sparse and pointed. A veneer of matter-of-factness tries and of course fails to conceal the turbulence and tension in the narrative.
In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyūzō, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture.
Kobo Abe's 1957 novel Beasts Head for Home can too easily be read as an historical adventure fable. Focusing on the experiences of its young protagonist, the novel traces the attempt of Kuki Kyuzo to escape Manchuria and return to his homeland after Japan is forced to give up its colonial stronghold after its defeat in World War II.
23 de may. de 2017 · ― Tony's Reading List Beasts Head for Home is as riveting and as unforgiving as the frigid Civil War wilderness in which it is set. -- Peter Gordon ― Asian Review of Books With its historical setting and named characters, Beasts Head for Home diverges from the surreal landscape of Abe's best-known work, The Woman in the Dunes , but alienation is at the Kafkaesque heart of both novels.
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Columbia University PressKobo Abe's 'Beasts Head for Home,' translated by Richard F. Calichman, is a harrowing fictionalized account of a young Japanese man who journeys through the harsh ...
