Kobo Abe S & D...

Anyone?

Well, I have to admit to never having heard of him but The Ark Sakura sounds terrific. So..er..thanks!

Go to the library and check out the Teshigahara Criterion box set.

I've heard good things about Woman in the Dunes.

it's one of the books that dworkin riffs off in intercourse. that probably doesn't count as 'heard good things'.

i remember reading the box man at 16 or so, looking for something a bit like that murakami guy; it's pretty good! it's about a bum who hangs around tokyo (i think) wearing (and sleeping in) a cardboard box. at one point he runs into another person who does the same, and after a two page conversation without clear dialogue tags they start to argue about which one of them had been the narrator

i have a copy of secret rendezvous hanging around somewhere; anyone read that one?

Woman in the Dunes is daft, creepy fun. Looking at Amazon, the Ark Sakura looks intriguing.

The Box Man is on of my very favorite books

one of

Woman in the Dunes was awesome. Ark Sakura made me feel... off? I think I liked it.

Having fun with The Ark Sakura right now. I'm very confused at where this is going exactly. But I'm having fun with it.

i wound up really enjoying the ark sakura iirc. the elderly gangs, the stupid "toilet" emergency (what was that thing, anyway?), following the dim narrator as he walks you through his getting conned throughout the entire book.

after dragging it out too long i'm finally wrapping up woman in the dunes, now that school has left me with some free time. it's perplexing, or i'm making it perplexing. feels more straight ahead than ark, which i'm saying of a book that takes place almost entirely in a wet pit of sand, but, idk i can't put my finger on it. a feeling like there's something specific i'm meant to get from everything, and that something specific escaping me. maybe it's just a story? i am drunk fyi.