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THE BOX MAN - KOBO ABE TASCHENBUCH

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.

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