fallen leaves 2: the magic chalk

You are in a room. The room is empty. There is nothing there, not even a window or a door.

But you have a chalk. You can draw anything with the chalk. And what you draw becomes real.

This is the premise of the novel, "The Wall" (1951), by Kobo Abe, a Japanese writer whose books I passionately read when I was a teenager.

At a certain point, the protagonist of the story starts to draw a window. He tries to make what he sees through the window as realistic as possible.

But can he do it?

Can he create a world?

Later, I realised that it was the problem of Laplace's demon.