Burned map. Abe K.

Cobo Abe is a brilliant star of the post -war Japanese avant -garde; His books are read all over the world, they make films and put up performances. The successor of the traditions of Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia, the forerunner Haruki Murakami, in each of his novels he creates a surreal reality that reforms the reader picture of the world, distorts - or clarifies - prisms of perception and every time completely overwhelms. No wonder another famous Japanese author of Kenzaburo Oe called Abe the largest writer in the history of literature.

A detective is looking for a missing person - but no one wants to find him except the detective: the wife of the missing person turned to an agency of a private investigation, but does not want to provide any information about her husband, her brother is confused by the detective under her feet, and the deeper He is immersed in the investigation, the more thoroughly. “Burned Card” is one of Kobo Abe’s most famous novels - a story about paranoia, the impossibility of understanding and a gradual loss of connection with the world and oneself.