Woman in the Dunes

Introduction

"The Woman in the Dunes" is a work Kobo Abe has announced in the year one thousand nine hundred sixty-two. Niki Junpei went out collecting insects from time to time, be confined to certain tribes of the desert. In order to maintain the house in that village, the inhabitants must have been almost all day long sand oysters. Niki is forced to the bottom of the hole are confined to sand, to labor for the house and a woman there, try a variety of methods, and started trying to escape there. Niki was repeated failure of the escape is familiar with the life of the house unawares, would like to find a "hope" in labor but had seemed meaningless (Cornyetz, pp 187 - 199).

Discussion

The Woman in the Dunes would say, a work that appeared characteristic of Kobo Abe. An desert, yet common and very aspects of Kafka like gouge deeply human existence is exotic, sand "is feeling such a world does not exist anywhere has been woven into the well, somewhere in the literature Abe certainly also present “The Woman” (Surhone, Tennoe & Henssonow, pp 78 - 91). On earth, the hero becomes a teacher to wrestle with this problem from the beginning to the end of the work, and sand or whatever. Sand, from time to time, also, as a physical existence, as a sign of spiritual fantasy, show up in front of us. However, this sand is never, in the presence not been finalized, it is a "sand" is hard to describe. If you can verbalize Kobo Abe once, do not write such a novel, novel and said in a format for a previous draw something meaningful. In other words, to explain or synopsis about it, the claim of the author in "The Woman in the Dunes" this will be meaningless (Abe, pp 78 - 91).

Woman is also the spearhead of our burakumin for Niki, under the name of patriotism spirit, increase the villagers dragged by travelers, and tries to maintain a village of the desert also. Therefore, man is freedom, to be invited to the restraint of society by a husband and wife involved with the woman but is the smallest unit of society (Cornyetz, pp 187 - 199). Niki struggle is trying to escape from the whole and tribal woman and sand that would be eventually eaten by the woman (Surhone, Tennoe & Henssonow, pp 78 - 91). Life of this village had appeared to be inefficient meaningless is absurd for Niki, after sex with a woman, and tribal life of their own lives until it becomes the equivalent. To labor for the man who is out on a journey in search of freedom, to live in holes being eaten into the hole, to keep the hole, I would like to be living for the hole. "If it is not in the frame of a woman ... most of the melodrama, and not admits their own against the price, seems convinced (Abe, ...