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...RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abe. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan's best novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity...
...RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abé. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan's finest novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity...
Intelligence reports have shown that the SS-9's reentry vehicles splashed down in a pattern. That design, when superimposed on a map of U.S. missile sites, was found to coincide with the distribution of ICBM silos. "There isn't any question," Nixon said, "that it is a multiple weapon, and its footprints indicate that it just happens to fall in somewhat the precise area in which our Minuteman silos are located...
...Verocchio's Florentine workshop, to the coarse drawings probably done after 1516, when he had moved to France and, in his 60s, had suffered a paralysis of his working arm. Most important, the exhibition encompasses the extraordinary diversity of Leonardo's interests and achievements. Armaments, navigation, map making, mathematics, anatomy, botany, astronomy-his investigations into all of them are graphically annotated. The continual restlessness of his great mind can be seen in the numerous sheets on which he had sketched, say, a gearwheel mechanism, only to move swiftly on to a series of male nudes or a study...
...moral power. Abé's The Face of Another, a novel about a chemist with a burnt-out face who attempts to function behind a life mask he has fashioned for himself, is as direct as any contemporary exploration of the identity-crisis theme. The Ruined Map, his newest novel to be translated into English, involves the Japanese version of a traditional Western private eye, but the view is strictly from an Eastern slant. The suspense is stirred up metaphysically rather than neatly plotted. The landscape is always as delicate as it is ominous...