Showing posts with label metaphysical detective novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metaphysical detective novel. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Kobo Abe - The Ruined Map






This is a fine example of metaphysical (or postmodern) crime novel. Unnamed private detective get hired by a woman to find her husband. Detective has small clues, just a location of women's brother and some shady dealings with pornography ring. As the novel proceeds, more and more surreal things become, and in the end private investigator himself get lost in a labyrinthine. Quite dreamlike novel, like one of David Lynch's movies.

Edward Bunker - No Beast So Fierce

Many years ago I watched Straight Time (1978), starring Dustin Hoffman, but until recently I had no idea that the film was based on Edward ...