The Box Man

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The Box Man

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ISBN: 9787567536203
author: Kōbō Abe
publishing house: East China Normal University Press
publication date: 2015 -7
number of pages: 153

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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.
is a bizarre fable about the very nature of identity.

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