The Box Man
Author: Abe, Kobo
ISBN: 9780241454596
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 195mm x 130mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece
'This is the record of a box man'
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.
ISBN: 9780241454596
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 195mm x 130mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece
'This is the record of a box man'
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.
