bourbm9 's review for:

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe

1.0

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I did not like this book at all. The main character is a terrible person and I could not help but feel like I wished for a worse fate than he got. The book came across as weirdly obsessed with sex. And not even consensual sex, but sex as a means of domination. The man is constantly thinking about it and thinks of the woman as an object with which he can unleash his sexual rage. It was pretty uncomfortable.