Sublime Voices

[Dave Monroe]

>From Christopher Bolton, Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and
Scientific Fiction of Abe Kōbō (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2009), Ch.
7, "A Technology of Silence: The Ark Sakura and the Nuclear Threat,"
pp. 245-73:

"... I would attribute a deeper meaning both to The Ark Sakura's
delayed arrival and to its lack of resolution.  I would argue that teh
structure and the difficulty of the novel reflect the nuclear tension
of the 1980s.  Abe produced a novel that gets stuck in the same way,
a novel of suspense where finally nothing happens, in which that
nothingness has an oppressive significance of its own." (p. 252)

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BOLSUB.html

Abe, Kōbō.  The Ark Sakura.
   Trans. Juliet Winter Carpenter.  New York: Knopf, 1988 [1984].

https://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307389633
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13051291/Kobo-Abe-The-Ark-Sakura
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/kobo-abe/ark-sakura.htm

Kōbō Abe (1924-1993)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Db%C5%8D_Abe
http://www.themodernword.com/SCRIPTorium/abe.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/koboabe.htm