The Box Man
( Japanese - Hako otoko ( 箱男 ) - 1973 )
novel by Kobo Abe
translated by Dale E.Saunders
Published: Knopf / Random House - hardback - 1974
ISBN: 0394491068 / 9780394491066
Charles E.Tuttle - paperback - 1975
ISBN: 4805303956
Perigee Books / Putnam - paperback - 1981
ISBN: 0399504850 / 9780399504853
North Point Press - paperback - 1995
ISBN: 0865474613 / 9780865474611
Vintage Books USA - paperback - 2001
ISBN: 0375726519 / 9780375726514
Synopsis
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.
Awards
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Filmed
Animation made in 2002, directed by Nirvan Mullick.
( Japanese - Hako otoko ( 箱男 ) - 1973 )
novel by Kobo Abe
translated by Dale E.Saunders
Published: Knopf / Random House - hardback - 1974
ISBN: 0394491068 / 9780394491066
Charles E.Tuttle - paperback - 1975
ISBN: 4805303956
Perigee Books / Putnam - paperback - 1981
ISBN: 0399504850 / 9780399504853
North Point Press - paperback - 1995
ISBN: 0865474613 / 9780865474611
Vintage Books USA - paperback - 2001
ISBN: 0375726519 / 9780375726514
Synopsis
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.
Awards
...
Filmed
Animation made in 2002, directed by Nirvan Mullick.