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, they make films and put on performances. The peculiar, paradoxical world embodied in Abe's work worries, surprises and baffles . No wonder another famous Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe called Abe the largest writer in the history of literature. "Just like a man" - a puzzle story in which the main character, together with the reader, will find out who he really is, ask a paradoxical question at first glance "How to prove the obvious?"The story is published in the translation of the famous science fiction writer Arkady Strugatsky