steve ross's review
The Ruined Map: A Novel by Kobo Abe
As a whole, I found the novel engrossing, but I admit to being perplexed by the end of it. It read like a workshop exercise. This is an instance that I really regret having just a single translation to refer to. It somehow seemed to have no tone... Is that possible? It's more likely that I missed a huge aspect to this book.
