Kobo Abe,one of the leading figures in postwar Japanese literature,is representative of a literary reform that helped Japan to shake off its literary tradition and revolutionized Japanese literature both in form and content.

• 日本战后作家安部公房始终关注资本主义社会中人存在的荒诞、异化的危机等现代社会问题,并且自觉运用存在主义哲学对这一现象进行剖析,以新颖的文学样式进行描述。