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The box man / Kōbō Abe ; translated by E. Dale Saunders.
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9780241454596 (paperback)
Name
Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993
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Hakootoko
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The box man / Kōbō Abe ; translated by E. Dale Saunders.
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London : Penguin Classics, 2020
©1974
Description
154 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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First published in Japan as Hakootoko in 1973.
Summary
The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed by the box men, slowly becomes drawn in to the anonymity and voyeuristic life inside a box. As his identity slowly slips away and he becomes obsessed with watching an intriguing young nurse, we too become privy to the schizophrenic and seductive unreality of a box man's life.
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Translated from the Japanese.
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Tramps -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction
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Psychological fiction
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Saunders, E. Dale (Ernest Dale), 1919-1995
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Penguin modern classics
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Tramps -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction
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Stream of consciousness fiction
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