Sublime Voices The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kōbō

Since the 1950s, Abe Kōbō (1924-1993) has achieved an international reputation for his surreal or grotesque brand of literature. Bolton explores how this reconciliation of ideas and dialects is for Abe part of the process whereby texts and individuals form themselves--a search for identity that occurs at the level of the self and society at large.