Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They … - Kōbō Abe

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Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.

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Kimifusa Abe (安部公房) (March 7, 1924 – January 22, 1993) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor who wrote under the pseudonym of Kōbō Abe (安部公房). His surreal, often nightmarish depictions of the modern condition have led him to often be compared to Franz Kafka. Abe won the Akutagawa Prize for The Crime of S. Karuma, the Yomiuri Prize in 1962 for The Woman in the Dunes, which was also made into an Oscar nominated film, and the Tanizaki Prize in 1967 for the play Friends.

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Alternative Names: Kimifusa Abe • Kobo Abe • Koubou Abe

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