安部公房 | Kōbō Abe

Legal name: 安部公房

Transliterated name: Abe, Kimifusa

Birth place: Kita, Tokyo, Japan

Birth date: 7 March 1924

Death date: 22 January 1993

Language: Japanese

Bibliographic comments: See also Christopher Bolton.

Biographic comments:

Novels

The Woman in the Dunes

1962

< First English language edition, 1964

Alfred A. Knopf

Hardcover, 239 pages

$4.95

Notes:

• Translated by E. Dale Saunders.

• Interior art by Machi Abe.

> Library edition

Wikipedia (Japanese)

The Box Man

1973

< First English language edition, December 1974

Alfred A. Knopf

ISBN 0-394-49106-8

Hardcover, 178 pages

£6.95

Notes:

• Translated by E. Dale Saunders.

> Library edition

Secret Rendezvous

1977

< First English language edition, September 1979

Alfred A. Knopf

ISBN 0-394-50372-4

Hardcover, 179 pages

$8.95

Notes:

• Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.

> Library edition

Kangaroo Notebook

1991

< First English language edition, April 1996

Alfred A. Knopf

ISBN 0-679-42412-1

Hardcover, 183 pages

$22.00

Notes:

• Translated by Maryellen Toman Mori.

> Library edition

The Ark Sakura

1984

< First English language edition, April 1988

Alfred A. Knopf

ISBN 0-394-55836-7

Hardcover, 333 pages

$18.95

Notes:

• Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.

> Library edition

Inter Ice Age 4

1959

< First English language edition, September 1970

Alfred A. Knopf

Hardcover, 228 pages

$5.95

Notes:

• Translated by E. Dale Saunders.

• Interior art by Machi Abe.

The Face of Another

1964

< First English language edition, September 1996

Alfred A. Knopf

Hardcover, 237 pages

$4.95

Notes:

• Translated by E. Dale Saunders.

> Library edition

The Ruined Map

1967

< First English language edition, 1969

Alfred A. Knopf

Hardcover, 299 pages

$5.95

Notes:

• Translated by E. Dale Saunders.

> Library edition

Collections

Beyond the Curve

1991

< First English language edition, April 1991

Kodansha International

ISBN 4-7700-1465-1

Hardcover, 247 pages

$18.95

Notes:

• Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.

Fiction: An Irrelevant Death // The Crime of S. Karma // Dendrocacalia // The Life of a Poet // Record of a

Transformation // Intruders // Noah's Ark // The Special Envoy // Beguiled // The Bet // The Dream Soldier //

Beyond the Curve