The Ruined Map (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Kobo Abe
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: 1967
- Setting: An unnamed Japanese metropolis
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: 1960’s, Reality, City life, Detectives, Missing persons, Imagination, Truthfulness and falsehood, Corruption, Japan or Japanese people, Private investigators
- Locales: Japan
Characters Discussed
The narrator, a private investigator. A heavy smoker and drinker, and an observant and cynical man as befits his profession, this nameless character combines an obsessive attention to detail with a curious passivity. He worries about justifying his expense reports yet does little to prevent two deaths. Separated from his own wife, he is increasingly fascinated by his client, Nemuro Haru; he refers continually to the lemon- yellow curtains in her home. He is also an imaginative man, proud of the investigative technique he has thought up, that of mentally...
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