Sublime voices : the fictional science and scientific fiction of Abe Kōbō
The author has an international reputation for his surreal or grotesque brand of avant-garde literature. From his early forays into science fiction to his more mature psychological novels and films, and finally the complicated experimental works produced near the end of his career, he weaves together a range of "voices": the styles of science and the language of literary forms. In his oeuvre, this stylistic interplay links questions of language and subjectivity with issues of national identity and technological development in a way that ultimately aspires to become the catalyst for an artistic revolution. While recognizing the disruptions such a revolution might entail, his texts embrace these disjunctions as a way of realizing radical new possibilities beyond everyday experience and everyday values
Print Book, English, ©2009
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