The Wind (1928)

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice find.  Sounds like a predecessor/opposite of my father's fave "Woman in the Dunes," http://preview.tinyurl.com/woman-in-the-dunes

It's what I'm seeing tonight, betwixt Waltz with Bashir and Watchmen.
I've seen WITD a couple/three times (along with other Teshigahara Abe
adaptations) @ the same theater.  DO read the novel, by the way, as
well as any/all other Kobo Abe you can find (The Ark Sakura trans ifs
FIANLLY back in print, but think, apocalyptic Japanese Confederacy of
Dunces).  Viz. ...

http://www.ibiblio.org/abekobo/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/koboabe.htm
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/kobo-abe/
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~raytrace/lit/authors/k_abe/
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=31

And if you won't take my word for it ...

http://www.themodernword.com/SCRIPTorium/abe.html

Haruki Murakami WHO?