Dual Alienation between Real and Surreal World under Mutual Projection—Kobo Abe’s Novel The Woman in the Dunes

doi:10.14156/j.cnki.rbwtyj.2016.03.009

JAPANESE RESEARCH ›› 2016, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (3): 75-80.DOI: 10.14156/j.cnki.rbwtyj.2016.03.009

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Dual Alienation between Real and Surreal World under Mutual Projection—Kobo Abe’s Novel The Woman in the Dunes

LIU Yan

The Feculty of Asian languages and Cultures, Guangdong Universtity of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou Guangdong, 514120, China

Received:2016-03-21 Online:2016-06-25 Published:2016-06-25

Abstract

Abstract: Kobo Abe is the representative Japanese writer of modernistic literature after World War II. He skillfully applied the techniques and themes of modernistic literature to Japan’s soil and reality. The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe’s masterpiece, integrated surrealism techniques and existential theme into one, showed the similar real and surreal worlds with the symbol of “Mobius strip”, and revealed the absurd human alienation and existence under the mutual projection of the two worlds to seek the significance of human existence.

Key words: Kobo Abe, surrealism techniques, mutual projection, existence, alienation

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LIU Yan. Dual Alienation between Real and Surreal World under Mutual Projection—Kobo Abe’s Novel The Woman in the Dunes[J]. JAPANESE RESEARCH, 2016, 30(3): 75-80.

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