9780679746638
Kangaroo Notebook: A Novel
Kobo Abe; Maryellen Toman Mori
ISBN 13: 9780679746638
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover
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In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japans most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment that repulses his doctor but provides the patient with the unusual ability to snack on himself. In short order, Kobo Abe's unraveling protagonist finds himself hurtling in a hospital bed to the very shores of hell. Abe has assembled a cast of oddities into a coherent novel, one imbued with unexpected meaning. Translated from the Japanese by Maryellen Toman Mori.
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"Our situation is as helpless and hopeless as that of the nameless man in this novel....It is up to us whether we close the book and give up, as I was tempted to do. What stopped me was was the peculiar idea...that this is just what Abe had planned, and that if I did what he had expected of me, I would be acknowledging, somehow, that he had won and he would be entitled to laugh at me."
David R. Slavitt, New York Times Book Review, 04/28/1996
Review:"Achieves a radical balance between deep philosophical questioning and a refreshingly goofy sense of comedy...One of Abe's signature triumphs."
San Francisco Chronicle
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