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The Box Man : A Novel (Vintage International)Blog this item

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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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Paperback 192 Pages
ISBN-10: 0375726519
ISBN-13: 9780375726514
Publisher: Vintage
Pub date: Jul 10, 2001
Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 1 cm Just how big is that?
Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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