Сожженная карта. Человек-ящик

For lovers of philosophy Kobo Abe's novel The Burnt Map (1967) was released simultaneously in Japan, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Readers in such different countries were equally close to the main themes in the work of the Japanese writer: the defenselessness of a person in front of society, hostility, fear and loneliness. A detective from a private detective agency is investigating a case of a missing person. He disappeared in broad daylight, no one knows where. In fact, there are a lot of such people. And the trouble is that they hardly want to be looked for. These are people who leave and never come back. They were sick of this routine, this way of life, this eternal search for a place under the sun...