Unrelated Lothrops

[Tim Strzechowski]

I read Kobo Abe's _The Woman in the Dunes_ a couple of years ago.  I thought
it was beautiful (in trans. of course), and it had an otherworldly quality
to the prose a'la  John Gardner, wherein the reader gets the strange sense
that there's "more" to this story than you see at the surface, butcha can't
quite put your finger on it.  Very haunting.

Dave Monroe wrote:

> Well, my life has always struck me as Beckettian,
> though perhaps not positively so ... but it's all I
> can do to not find me some Beckett List as well, spend
> ALL my time online.  And I'm curious if anyone else
> here is familiar with Kobo Abe, who I think would be a
> natural in this crowd, perhaps even more so than
> Haruki Murakami (not to be confused with Ryu Marakami,
> who might also be of interest nonetheless.  Osamu
> Dazai?  Let me know ...) ...