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The Box Man
  

The Box Man (Hardcover)

de Kobo Abe (Author)
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The nature of identity itself is the ostensible subject of this bizarrely fascinating existential novel from the great Japanese fiction writer and dramatist Kobo Abe. In the story, a man decides to give up the self that he has been all his life to attain a state of blissful anonymity. He leaves his world behind and moves onto the streets of Tokyo. He puts a large box over his head, cuts a hole for his eyes. It is as strange as it sounds, but Abe's light touch and narrative innovation makes it compelling. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.


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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. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 Quick, stimulating, and a little mind-boggling, Avril 11 2007
Par K (Princeton, NJ USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Box Man: A Novel (Paperback)
Comparisons often drawn with Kafka are pretty immediately apparent; for about 180 pages (in translation, from the original Japanese) Abe successively stuffs his characters, himself, and ultimately his readers into the enigmatic cardboard box which so readily identifies the 'box man'. A somewhat unreliable narrator, through a series of scribbled notes and blurry photographs, describes his own transformation into a box man, its dangers and appeals, and the unique perspective it can bring to one's existence in the world. The style fits elegantly and seamlessly to its author's purpose, bringing to life the sliver of landscape, the naked leg, and the absence of sky so sparingly afforded the box man through his narrow peep-hole.

Despite one somewhat clumsy, facetious dialogue between two characters about just who is a figment of whom's imagination, the book unfolds in a pleasing, well-organized mess of philosophical musings and subtleties.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 identity, Aoû 17 2002
This review is from: The Box Man: A Novel (Paperback)
The Box Man delves into what it is to be seen and what it is to see, the phenomenon of looking and being looked at. There are many parallels with sartre's Being and Nothingness - the idea that one despises being looked at because he is forced to think about his imperfect facticity, and that the unseen viewer, be it at sartre's keyhole or abe's observation window, is put in the privledge position of remaining pure transcendance, or purely beings of the mental realms that are untouchable by the outside world. Abe's style of writing leaves the reader guessing whether or not he is the voyeur or the exhibitionist.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 a title for your review, Mars 7 2002
Par joe bitterman (somewhere with carmen sandiago) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Box Man: A Novel (Paperback)
Half the time I wasn't sure what the heck was going on so I consider this book to be, in part, a book questioning reality/ontology. The "box man" would ramble on about some scenario/reality/happening and then reveal that it was all his imagination. That's pretty much how my life goes about, more imagination than substance, so this book is a rather effective looking-glass. Given that, this plays a significant role in the play of "my dissatisfaction with the book." I don't want to be reminded of my anonymity and social lackings. I have little problem recommending this book to others--sometimes i recommend bad books to people for my own kicks--but there are other books I'd prefer to see sittin in my lap. In keeping with the question of reality, if its even addressed in this book (what the heck do i know--answer: nothing) I'd prefer to read Mark Daneilewski's House of Leaves or Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and definitely The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban (I list these books only to impress you. It's pure show.).

There are elements of identity problems in this book, as far as I can see anyway. The person lives in a box, he/she doesnt have a name, and he/she usually only looks at people while they in turn, people, only see a box, if that. That's pretty cut n'dry. Again, there are other books that attack this idea more vicously. See: Fight Club

My biggest problem with the book is this: I have no clue if the box man was a murder or not. I love biggest problems and I consider this to be a rather large one, unanswered questions. So, Ill give this my recommendation, but, will the joke be on you?

Nah.

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1.0étoiles sur 5 Completely nonessential.
I think of The Box Man by Kobo Abe and I try to recall one memorable image, or one compelling character, or one trenchant observation, or indeed one particularly inventive or... Read more
Publié le Juil 14 2002 par Angry Mofo

5.0étoiles sur 5 at least seven fierce dogs to avoid within the city
a contemporary novel of fragmented identity which examines the ultimate failure of signification...so comparisons to beckett are pretty relevant i would say. Read more
Publié le Janv. 1 2002 par longggg_duree

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