Rolf J. Goebel (essay date June 1983)
SOURCE: Goebel, Rolf J. “Kōbō Abe: Japan's Kafka.” Newsletter of the Kafka Society of America, no. 1 (June 1983): 30-40.
[In the following essay, Goebel determines the influence of Franz Kafka on Abe's fiction.]
Kafka's influence upon Western authors has enjoyed thorough, if by no means exhaustive, critical investigation. His reception in East Asian countries, however, has so far been unduly neglected. Yet, if we wish to understand the complexities of Kafka's world-wide impact on modern literature, we...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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