The Box Man

Kobo Abe

ISBN 10: 0865474613 / ISBN 13: 9780865474611

Published by North Point Press, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Box Man
• Publisher: North Point Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865474613
• ISBN 13: 9780865474611
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

A man who chooses to exist in a small cardboard box records life in the box and his observations of the world from its small window

Review

The nature of identity itself is the ostensible subject of this bizarrely fascinating existential novel from the great Japanese fiction writer and dramatist Kobo Abe. In the story, a man decides to give up the self that he has been all his life to attain a state of blissful anonymity. He leaves his world behind and moves onto the streets of Tokyo. He puts a large box over his head, cuts a hole for his eyes. It is as strange as it sounds, but Abe's light touch and narrative innovation makes it compelling.