In another of his novels, the commotion caused by a woman's extrauterine pregnancy gives a man a chance to escape, but he chooses to remain in his prison.
The protagonist of one novel by this author marvels at an insect that eats its own feces, which he proceeds to purchase from the man who kills his father. A man searches for his wife, who was taken by an ambulance while she was perfectly healthy, in his novel The Secret Rendezvous. In another of his novels, the elderly Broom Brigade attacks the title object, an (*) underground structure built by Mole to survive nuclear war. In another of his novels, the commotion caused by a woman's extrauterine pregnancy gives a man a chance to escape, but he chooses to remain in his prison. That work is about entomologist Niki Jumpei. For 10 points, name this Japanese science-fiction author of The Ark Sakura and The Woman in the Dunes.
The protagonist of one novel by this author marvels at an insect that eats its own feces, which he proceeds to purchase from the man who kills his father.
Kobo Abe [or Kimifusa Abe]