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s/t: A Novel of the Future This is yet another of Mr. Abe's ominous configurations (Woman in the Dunes etc.) this time staking out its uncertain ideological imperatives in a grave new world submerged under water. In the beginning, however, Professor Katsumi who has a computer capable of making predictions, has no idea of the work undertaken in a still more dehumanized laboratory. But a double murder, an analysis of one of the bodies & some anonymous phone calls (this is all quite exciting) alert him to a traffic in human fetuses corroborated by his wife's enforced curettage. Witnessing the works in progress--growing rooms for human submarine colonies which will make human survival possible--he is also threatened with his own extinction betrayed by his own machine & he's made to consider various ethical conjectures & priorities: should one deny one's self--should the present be expendable in the interest of the future? While not everybody's book, Abe's conceptual startler has a chilly precision which makes the unthinkable only too threateningly possible.--Kirkus
Acquisto del libro
Die vierte Zwischeneiszeit, Siegfried Schaarschmidt, Kōbō Abe
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1975
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- (Copertina rigida)
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- Lingua
- Tedesco
- Autori
- Siegfried Schaarschmidt, Kōbō Abe
- Editore
- Insel Verlag
- Pubblicato
- 1975
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 230
- ISBN10
- 3458058648
- ISBN13
- 9783458058649
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa
- Valutazione
- 4,5 su 5
- Descrizione
- s/t: A Novel of the Future This is yet another of Mr. Abe's ominous configurations (Woman in the Dunes etc.) this time staking out its uncertain ideological imperatives in a grave new world submerged under water. In the beginning, however, Professor Katsumi who has a computer capable of making predictions, has no idea of the work undertaken in a still more dehumanized laboratory. But a double murder, an analysis of one of the bodies & some anonymous phone calls (this is all quite exciting) alert him to a traffic in human fetuses corroborated by his wife's enforced curettage. Witnessing the works in progress--growing rooms for human submarine colonies which will make human survival possible--he is also threatened with his own extinction betrayed by his own machine & he's made to consider various ethical conjectures & priorities: should one deny one's self--should the present be expendable in the interest of the future? While not everybody's book, Abe's conceptual startler has a chilly precision which makes the unthinkable only too threateningly possible.--Kirkus