Kobo Abe is one of the most brilliant Japanese writers and at the same time one of the most mysterious. His books are read all over the world, films are made based on them and performances are staged. The peculiar, paradoxical world embodied in Abe’s work excites, surprises and baffles. It is not for nothing that another famous Japanese author, Kenzaburo Oe, called Abe the greatest writer in the entire history of literature. “Just Like a Man” is a puzzle story in which the main character, together with the reader, will have to figure out who he really is and ask a question that seems paradoxical at first glance. : “How to prove the obvious?” The story is published in a translation by the famous science fiction writer Arkady Strugatsky.