The Ruined Map
8 hrs. 33 min.
Description
Kobo Abe is a brilliant star of the postwar Japanese avant-garde; his books are read around the world, and films and stage productions are made from them. Continuing the traditions of Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Alberto Moravia, a precursor to Haruki Murakami, in each of his novels he creates a surreal reality that reshapes the reader’s picture of the world—distorting or clarifying the prisms of perception—and leaves you completely stunned every time. No wonder another famous Japanese author, Kenzaburō Ōe, called Abe the greatest writer in the entire history of literature.
A detective searches for a missing person—but no one wants to find them except the detective: the missing man’s wife goes to a private investigation agency, but refuses to provide any information about her husband; the man’s brother keeps getting in the detective’s way; and the deeper the investigation goes, the more puzzling it becomes. "The Burnt Map"—one of Kobo Abe’s best-known novels—is a story about paranoia, the impossibility of understanding, and the gradual loss of connection with the world and with oneself.
A detective searches for a missing person—but no one wants to find them except the detective: the missing man’s wife goes to a private investigation agency, but refuses to provide any information about her husband; the man’s brother keeps getting in the detective’s way; and the deeper the investigation goes, the more puzzling it becomes. "The Burnt Map"—one of Kobo Abe’s best-known novels—is a story about paranoia, the impossibility of understanding, and the gradual loss of connection with the world and with oneself.
