Secret Meeting
About This Novel
If Abe Kobo's "The Box Man" is a "voyeur's novel", then "Secret Meeting" is an "eavesdropper's novel". One summer dawn, the ambulance came to the home and took his wife away. In order to find his wife, "I" sneaked into the huge closed hospital. The deputy director there was rendered impotent due to a "neurosis of human relations." For treatment, the deputy director installed nearly 250 listening devices inside and outside the hospital. I have never been able to find out the whereabouts of my wife, but I have become friends with people such as Ma Er, the vice-president who pretends to be someone else's lower body, and his secretary, a girl with osteolytic disease. In order to rescue the girl with osteolytic disease from the control of the vice-dean, "I" was chased and had no place to stay. Knowing that the vice president could hear it, "I" began to shout into the bug, admitting that he had become a patient... The novel uses a unique method to analyze the relationship between the weak and power to readers, revealing the characteristics of modern human society.
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