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The box man

Presents the narrator's observations on the world after he gives up his home to live in a cardboard box, which he wears over his head.

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  • "Box man"
  • "Box man"@en
  • "Hakootoko"

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  • "Kobo 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. From the Trade Paperback edition."
  • "Absurdistisch verhaal waarin een man besluit gekleed in een kartonnen doos door het leven te gaan."
  • "Un homme par refus de la société et comme seule réaction à son impuissance face au monde, se réfugie dans une boîte. Mais s'il est tourmenté et solitaire, il est pourtant capable d'humour et d'amour et c'est l'amour d'une femme qui le décidera à sortir de sa boîte."
  • "Presents the narrator's observations on the world after he gives up his home to live in a cardboard box, which he wears over his head."@en
  • "The author combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett."

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  • "Toy and movable books"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Artist's books"@en
  • "Japanese fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Translations"
  • "Translations"@en

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  • "Hakōtoko"
  • "Hakōtoko"@ja
  • "Hako otoko <engl.&gt"
  • "The box man a novel"
  • "El hombre caja"@es
  • "The box man"@en
  • "The box man"
  • "A dobozember : [regény]"@hu
  • "A dobozember"
  • "Hakootoko"@ja
  • "Hakootoko"
  • "Hako otoko"
  • "The box man : a novel"@en
  • "The box man : a novel"
  • "An Anaglyphic Tetrahedron"
  • "L'homme-boite : roman"
  • "L'homme-boîte : roman"
  • "箱男"
  • "The boxman"@en
  • "L'homme-boite"@en
  • "A dobozember : regény"
  • "Box Man A Novel"@en
  • "Der Schachtelmann"
  • "Chelovek-iashchik"
  • "L'homme-boîte"
  • "El hombre caja / the box man"
  • "[Hako otoko]"
  • "L'Homme-boite : roman"
  • "Xiang nan"
  • "An anaglyphic tetrahedron"
  • "An anaglyphic tetrahedron"@en

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