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The Road Sign at the End of the Street (終りし道の標に Owarishi michi no shirube ni, 1948) is the debut novel by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe.
It is written using the first-person narrative voice and is divided into three "notebooks," entitled “The Road Sign at the End of the Street,” “The Unwriteable Words,” and "The Unknowable God,” along with a brief coda.
Abe shared the manuscript of the novel with one of his former high school teachers
The work has been described as a "highly abstract difficult spiritual autobiography."