'A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece' Chicago Sun Times 'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has found himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life. As he becomes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Kobo ...
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'A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece' Chicago Sun Times 'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has found himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life. As he becomes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Kobo Abe's eerie, disorienting and seductive masterpiece of unease. 'Funny, sad and destructive ... an invention with its own crazy pull, it gnaws at the reader ... a stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity' The New York Times
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Add this copy of The Box Man to cart. $22.82, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Random House (NY).
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Very good in good dust jacket. This is a used book in very good condition, very clean, some fading. Text in English, Japanese. 178 p. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of The Box Man (English and Japanese Edition) to cart. $125.72, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Random House.
Very stark, harrowing look at extreme isolation. This is something of a mystery story, very similar to the Ruined Map, in that all of the characters are extremely decietful and not very pleasant people. If you are an Abe fan, this is an excellent book to add to your collection, and if you are new to the amazing world he creates, you couldn't do much better than this as a jumping-off point, with the possible exception of Woman in the Dunes.