From the jacket flap
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes," combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.
In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets of Tokyo and scribbling madly on the interior walls of his box, he describes the world outside as he sees or perhaps imagines it, a tenuous reality that seems to include a mysterious rifleman determined to shoot him, a seductive young nurse, and a doctor who wants to become a box man himself. The Box Man is a marvel of sheer originality and a bizarrely fascinating fable about the very nature of identity.
Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders.
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- Title The Box Man
- Author Kobo Abe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition Th
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date July 10, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780375726514 / 0375726519
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.55 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.40 cm)
- Reading level 950
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Japan
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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