# Kōbō Abe

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Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)

“The Little Mermaid” has become popular around the world since the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen published it almost two centuries ago. Lucy Fraser’s The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid” (Wayne State University Press, 2017)‮…

Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)

“The Little Mermaid” has become popular around the world since the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen published it almost two centuries ago. Lucy Fraser’s The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid” (Wayne State University Press, 2017)‮…

#411 - I Don't Like Sand

A man spends a night in an isolated woman's desert shack, and loses his identity in the process, in WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964), Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kōbō Abe's resonant parable about... what, exactly? Your hosts are not entirely sure, but forge ahead anyway with this seminal work of postwar Japa‮…

Michael and Us: I Don't Like Sand

A man spends a night in an isolated woman's desert shack, and loses his identity in the process, in WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964), Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kōbō Abe's resonant parable about... what, exactly? Your hosts are not entirely sure, but forge ahead anyway with this seminal work of postwar Japa‮…

Ten-Minute Writing Exercise #19: Sea Students

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2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page. Today's 10-minute writing exercise is inspired by Inter Ice Age 4 by Kōbō Abe. We're inhabiting an underwater classroom, and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She's either embarrassed or proud of mak‮…

Episode 169: Pitfall (1962)

Josh and Drusilla discuss the 1962 Japanese film, Pitfall. From wiki: “Pitfall (おとし穴, Otoshiana), a.k.a. The Pitfall and Kashi To Kodomo, is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, written by Kōbō Abe. It was Teshigahara's first feature, and the first of his four film collaborations ‮…

Woman in the Dunes & Kōbō Abe

Renowned Japanese film, literature, and theater scholar Dr. Timothy Iles joins us to discuss ecological aspects of WOMAN IN THE DUNES and Kōbō Abe's expansive ecological imagination beyond this novel and film. Kōbō Abe wrote WOMAN IN THE DUNES beginning in about 1960. It was published as a novel ‮…

The Face of Another 1966: Scars & Identity in Post War Japan

Trigger warning: This discussion includes talk about sexual assault and sexual violence. This is a theme apparent in the film and the source material. It is mentioned a few times. The topic is not spoken about in detail, but I wanted to share a general trigger warning for those that would prefer t‮…