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The Box Man
Kobo Abe
其他書名
A Novel
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011-12-14
主題Fiction / LiteraryFiction / PsychologicalFiction / Magical Realism
ISBN030781369X9780307813695
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ltX9P4IRfCgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.