Secret rendezvous
Original title: Mikkai
Author: Kobo ABE
Publisher: Azbuka
Edition format: 11,5 x 18 cm
Number of pages: 288
Binding: soft
Language: Russian
ISBN 978-5-389-22295-3, 2023.
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Kobo Abe is the shining star of the post-war Japanese avant-garde; his books are read all over the world, and have been made into films and plays. A continuator of the traditions of Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia, a forerunner of Haruki Murakami, in each of his novels he creates a surreal reality that reformats the reader's picture of the world, distorts - or clarifies - the prisms of perception and every time completely stuns. It is not without reason that another famous Japanese author, Kenzaburo Oe, called Abe the greatest writer in the history of literature ...
In ‘Last Date’ the wife of the protagonist is taken to the hospital unknown where the paramedics came from, although she is perfectly healthy. Trying to get her back, the stunned hero plunges into a hospital hell - a Kafkaesque state within a state, a surreal world within itself, where the only way to survive is to become part of the system and play by the rules, turning a blind eye to the ubiquitous and otherwise familiar absurdity.
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