The Box Man
- Schrijver: Kobo Abe (Japan)
- Soort boek: Japanse roman
- Origineel: 箱男 / Hako otoko (1973)
- Engelse vertaling: E. Dale Saunders
- Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
- Verschijnt: 29 oktober 2020
- Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook
Recensie en waardering voor The Box Man
- “Funny, sad and destructive … an invention with its own crazy pull, it gnaws at the reader … a stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity. A spooky novel that crawls under the bedclothes of our won mad century.” (The New York Times)
- ‘A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece.” (Chicago Sun Times)
Flaptekst van de roman van Kobo Abe
This is the record of a box man. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has found himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life. As he becomes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Kobo Abe’s eerie, disorienting and seductive masterpiece of unease.