Lecture: Four Japanese Novelists: Kobo Abe

April 5, 1999

Lecture: Four Japanese Novelists: Kobo Abe
Prof. Donald Keene (University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus, Columbia University)
GSAS Lounge, Philosophy Hall, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
6:00 PM

Donald Keene, the Western world’s most celebrated scholar of Japanese literature and culture, will relate personal reminiscences about Kobo Abe and comment on his literary achievements.  A novelist and playwright, Kobo Abe is one of the most accomplished figures in Japanese postwar literature. Often writing about the alienation of modern life, Abe’s most famous works include The Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna, 1962), The Box Man (Hako otoko, 1973), The Ruined Map (Moetsukita chizu, 1967) and Friends (Tomodachi, 1967). Several of his works have been translated into English by Donald Keene.

Tickets are $15.00 per lecture. 
Columbia students are admitted free with an ID. 
Tickets are available at the door and can also be purchased in advance by sending a check payable to The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture and a self-addressed stamped envelope to The Donald Keene Center, 507 Kent Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.

Part of Four Japanese Novelists Lecture Series