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Box Man : A Novel by Kobo Abe (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Title: The Box Man. Number of Pages: 192. Publication Date: 2001-07-10.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375726519
ISBN-139780375726514
eBay Product ID (ePID)1828671
Product Key Features
Book TitleBox Man : a Novel
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Magical Realism, Literary
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorKobo Abe
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight5.8 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"A spellbinder from beginnning to end, an edgy masterpiece."C hicago Sun-Times "A stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity…an ontological thriller." The New York Times "Brilliant…. Like Kafka's, Abe's work reveals an astonishing ability to create dreamlike events." Chicago Tribune, "A spellbinder from beginnning to end, an edgy masterpiece."Chicago Sun-Times "A stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity…an ontological thriller."The New York Times "Brilliant…. Like Kafka's, Abe's work reveals an astonishing ability to create dreamlike events."Chicago Tribune
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal895.6/35
SynopsisKobo 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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