The Man Who Turned Into a Stick. Three Related Plays - Inscribed -
K b Abe
1975 - University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo - First Edition in English
Inscribed by Kōbō Abe in Japanese and signed in English. Translated by Donald Keene.
This work contains three plays written between 1957 and 1969, usually presented together and symbolising the different stages of life. The first, representing birth, is The Suitcase. The second, The Cliff of Time, represents life itself, or The Process and the third, The Man who Turned into a Stick, is death.
The Man Who Turned Into A Stick (棒になった男 – Bō ni natta otoko), is considered a primary example of magic realism in Japanese literature. Kōbō Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist and playwright.
Thin octavo (book size 23.4x15.5cm), pp. x 84 [2]. In publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, black pictorial endpapers, dust jacket priced ‘Y1800’ to lower corner of rear flap, and with publisher's decorative trim to all corners. Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket with 3cm closed tear to upper corner of front panel. Ref: 107978 Price: HK$ 6,000
This work contains three plays written between 1957 and 1969, usually presented together and symbolising the different stages of life. The first, representing birth, is The Suitcase. The second, The Cliff of Time, represents life itself, or The Process and the third, The Man who Turned into a Stick, is death.
The Man Who Turned Into A Stick (棒になった男 – Bō ni natta otoko), is considered a primary example of magic realism in Japanese literature. Kōbō Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist and playwright.
Thin octavo (book size 23.4x15.5cm), pp. x 84 [2]. In publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, black pictorial endpapers, dust jacket priced ‘Y1800’ to lower corner of rear flap, and with publisher's decorative trim to all corners. Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket with 3cm closed tear to upper corner of front panel. Ref: 107978 Price: HK$ 6,000