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Kobo Abe is a highly representative writer in modern Japanese literature, and his works have a steady readership in the Chinese-speaking world as well. The library holds nine of his works, including The Woman in the Dunes, The Box Man, The Secret Rendezvous, The Wall, and the four-volume Kobo Abe Works Series, which together sketch the core profile of his writing. Because personal details such as his dates of birth and death and nationality are not specified in the library records, public information is limited, so no biographical narrative is given here. Judging from the common categories "social novel, foreign literature, and social science," his writing often takes ordinary people's situations as its entry point and, through parable-like scenarios, examines individual identity anxiety, alienation, and existential predicaments in modern society. Works such as The Woman in the Dunes and The Box Man especially embody this narrative style poised between reality and abstraction, with concise plots and striking imagery that draw readers in with suspense while leaving thought-provoking space. His works have attracted attention in Japan and abroad and continue to influence later literary and intellectual discussion, making them suitable for readers willing to explore the relationship between society and the self through story.