Wall

About This Novel

"The Wall" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Kobo Abe. The whole book is divided into three parts. The first "The Crime of Mr. S. Karma" is Abe's earliest avant-garde masterpiece. It won the 25th Akutagawa Prize and established his position in the literary world. In the novel, the protagonist wakes up one night and realizes that he has forgotten his name. Losing his name caused him to directly lose his right to exist in reality, and he became the target of criticism. After experiencing various strange and irrational phenomena, he himself turned into a wall. In the second film, "The Raccoon of Babel," the protagonist's shadow was eaten by a strange beast, the raccoon, and turned into a transparent man with only his eyeballs left. The third volume contains four short stories. "The Red Cocoon" won the second Post-War Literature Prize and tells the story of a homeless man who eventually transforms into an empty cocoon. "The Flood" tells the story of humans turning into liquid and eventually flooding the entire world. The protagonist of "Magic Chalk" is a poor painter who accidentally discovers that things drawn with red chalk will become real objects without being exposed to sunlight, so he shuts himself up and attempts to design a new world. The last piece, "Career," satirizes capitalism for turning everything, even people themselves, into raw materials and processed into commodities. The concept of "wall" is consistent throughout the book. The author describes the "lonely person" in modern cities and civilized society through the protagonist who is transformed into a wall, an empty cocoon or a chalk drawing. Through absurd plots, he shows a real world that seems absurd but is actually real.

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