The Box Man
Goodreads
ISBN: 9787567536203
Autore:
Kōbō Abe
Casa editrice:
East China Normal University Press
data di pubblicazione: 2015
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Numero di pagine: 153
箱男 [Hako otoko]
Sinossi
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.
is a bizarre fable about the very nature of identity.