Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Medallion, New York
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good. No Jacket as Issued. Some edgewear and tanning to the covers. Previous owners name on the front page. Mild page toning. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Berkley Medallion, New York
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight and square. Minor foxing. 158p. Fiction: A man and a woman trapped together at the bottom of a sand pit. The man is a Tokyo school teacher on a seashore vacation, then held prisoner with a young woman. The film version won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, and was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 1964 Academy Awards. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Books
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. First Berkley edition. 158 pages. Paperback. Berkley Books No. S1104. 1965 first Berkley printing, a first thus. Condition: Very good. Mild wear. Owner's name written on front end page. 13a. read more
by
Abe, Kobo, and McDonald, Erroll (Editor), and Saunders, E Dale (Translated by)
price: $8.00
Ships from
NY,
USA
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780679733782ISBN:0679733787
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Japanese. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 3rd Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley, New York
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. To view other titles by this author enter the keywords; XDCX, XJGX, Abe or Fantasy. Excellent condition with minor wear o/w tight clean and square. The film won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Academy Award as 1964's Best Foreign Film. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle
Date Published: 1986
Description: Acceptable. 74-W Books rated "Acceptable" may have significant wear & tear; may have significant amounts of underlining, highlighting, or notes; may have moderate stains, creases, or tears; may have cracked spines or loose pages; may have the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription; or may be library discards. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780679733782ISBN:0679733787
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780192820921ISBN:0192820923
Description: Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: KNOPF., NY
Date Published: 1964
Description: First American Edition. Close to near fine in a Vg. + dj. (A few small digs in cloth at edge of spine on cloth. Matching strip of chipping on dj. Spine on dj. a tad age darkened) Basis for the celebrated film adaptation. (O) read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: ALFRED A KNOPF CO, NEW YORK NY
Date Published: PUB 1964
Description: FINE IN A NEAR FINE D.J. THIS BOOK WAS WINNER OF THE 1960 YOMIURI PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE TESHIGAHARA FILM BASED ON THE NOVEL WAS A CANNES SUCCESS. TRANSLATED FROM THE JAPANESE BY E. DALE SAUNDERS WITH JACKET ART AND BOOK'S ILLUSTRATIONS BY MACHI ABE. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. OTHER THAN A TOUCH OF RUB/WEAR AT CORNERS AND SPINE ENDS THE D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. read more
I preferred this book--I really enjoyed the narrator being in a surreal world from a rational standpoint.
In this book, the narrator is put into a hole in the ground with a woman, who is to be his lover & partner. Each night she digs sand out that spills into their home, to avoid dying.
At first he helps her, until he realizes he is trapped and the villagers above will not let him out. He allows her to bathe him, cook for him, & has sex with her in a life-affirming way--there is no romance here.
Eventually of course he actually works with the woman, and at this point we see that he accepts the conditions, choosing to work in the same manner she does.
"Trapdoor spider! This is a very good book. If you like Camus, you will like this. If you don't know anything about sand, you will after reading this! haha"
"Coincide mi lectura de "La mujer de la arena" con mi visionado de "Picnic at Hanging Rock" de Peter Weir. Ambas tramas son parecidas. En el libro un hombre se pierde en un desierto de arena. En la película varias chicas desaparecen en un valle de rocas. No es ningún secreto lo que va a suceder. En la contraportada del libro de Kôbô Abe se nos resume la historia. Peter Weir abre su film con un texto donde se nos echa el cuento. Revelado el misterio sólo queda algo por hacer, una estrategia: envolver al lector y al espectador en una atmósfera casi irreal, "un paisaje perturbador, inquietante". Y tanto escritor como cineasta lo llevan a cabo. Kôbô Abe llega a hacernos sentir la arena deslizarse por nuestro cuerpo, nos entierra junto al personaje en las dunas. ¿Cómo? Con frases como éstas: "Mientras dibujaba en su mente el efecto del fluir de la arena, le ocurría a veces tener alucinaciones y pensaba que él mismo comenzaba a fluir" "Al cerrar los ojos numerosas líneas, corriendo como suspiros, se acercaron flotando hacia él. Eran las pequeñas olas de arena que se movían sobre las dunas" "La arena que se había depositado en su cara, en su cabeza, en su pecho, cayó susurrando" Peter Weir, con el recurso de la música (una música hipnótica) y una cámara oculta entre las rocas, nos hechiza y conduce al extravío. Abe y Weir nos convierten en protagonistas de sus obras, del trance y del delirio."
"Look, I know it's a fantastic existential allegory (so, too, did Camus, most notably). Abe's narrative works on many levels, even if he does beat the insect metaphor to death on several of these. And it's a fair bit more balanced and polished than, say, The Box Man. I just personally cannot deal with books where characters are trapped in relatively absurd situations, physically, psychologically, or otherwise. It adds an unwanted tension to the reading experience.
That said, I read it in a matter of three or four hours, and enjoyed it quite a bit despite my frustration with the plot. Abe exhibits a remarkable frugality of language and manages to accomplish in 240 pages what many writers cannot do, or do as well, in double or triple that space. But much in the same way that reading A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich made me crave some good ol' Russian black bread for the next week or so, now I can't stop wondering how I'm going to get all this sand out of my clothes."
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
rating
