The Woman in the Dunes (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Kobo Abe
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: 1955-1962
- Setting: A Japanese seaside village
- Genres: Long fiction, Existential literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, Teaching or teachers, 1960’s, Self-discovery, Prisoners, Nature, Escapes, Villages, Ethics, Labor, Japan or Japanese people, Sand or sand dunes
- Locales: Japan
Characters Discussed
Niki Jumpei, a Japanese schoolmaster and amateur collector of insects. Thirty-one years old and ordinary looking, Niki is a rather commonplace member of the conformist urban Japanese populace. He lives in the city with a woman who is not a wholly fulfilling sexual partner. He is a creature of regular habits, appears to derive his sense of identity from the way that his society and his colleagues define him, and is not particularly individualistic or imaginative. Beneath this team-player exterior, however, Niki does harbor a few sparks of desire for...
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