Yoshio Iwamoto (review date winter 1997)
SOURCE: Iwamoto, Yoshio. Review of Kangaroo Notebook, by Kōbō Abé. World Literature Today 71, no. 1 (winter 1997): 228.
[In the following review, Iwamoto offers a mixed assessment of Kangaroo Notebook.]
Kobo Abe's last novel before his death in 1993, Kangaroo Notebook, originally published in Japanese in 1991, refigures with imaginative vigor those ingredients that have become trademarks in the novelist-playwright's works: metamorphosis, the theme of alienation and the problem of personal...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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