The Box Man
Kobo Abe's 1973 novel about a man who lives in a cardboard box and watches the world outside, translated by E. Dale Saunders.
The Box Man is a novel by Kobo Abe, published in Japanese in 1973. It is about a man wearing a cardboard box and his observations of the world outside. A film version by Gakuryu Ishii premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024. Rie Qudan names its unhinged premise, abrupt narrative shifts and intensely cerebral prose, and says that reading it as a student brought her a strange sort of comfort.
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