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The Box Man

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.

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