tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post3381283804047121244..comments2024-03-28T22:51:28.222+05:30Comments on The Middle Stage: Kobo Abe and the face of anotherChandrahashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-84709757320920270572010-04-09T18:37:53.725+05:302010-04-09T18:37:53.725+05:30The man trapped in a dune storyline reminded me of...The man trapped in a dune storyline reminded me of Rudyard Kipling's short story "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes", which is equally eerie, and makes the <i>reader</i> feel strangely claustrophobic and helpless. It's available online, here: http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1982/B.W.http://apersonfromporlock.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-32295580362327917482010-03-20T17:42:14.910+05:302010-03-20T17:42:14.910+05:30Teshigahara's film 'woman in the dunes'...Teshigahara's film 'woman in the dunes' (with the script written by Abe himself) is also extraordinary...bimanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11089138442747390808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-9466320414452725982010-03-20T12:45:56.071+05:302010-03-20T12:45:56.071+05:30Woman in the Dunes was a movie about man vs chaos...<a href="http://smrana.blogspot.com/search/label/Woman%20in%20the%20Dunes" rel="nofollow">Woman in the Dunes </a> was a movie about man vs chaos. So to some extent was last years Antichrist. Have you seen David Lynch's "Elephant Man", a man who is born with nothing but deformities (based on an actual case), which incidently is trite as films go.S M Ranahttp://smrana.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com