The man is a pitch. Abe K.

Kobo Abe is the famous Japanese prose writer and playwright. The scale of his talent is huge, his books are mysterious, fascinating and paradoxical. These peculiar novels-paratroopers tell about people who are under the rule of an obsessive idea or are in a situation similar to a fantastic dream. The hero of the novel “The Man-Great”, hiding from the society hated by him, placed himself in a special box, thereby turning into a new creature. He wanders aimlessly along the streets of Tokyo, covering the walls of his voluntary prison with descriptions of the external world, which, perhaps, is only a reflection of his gloomy fantasies...