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9780241454596: The Box Man: Kobo Abe (Penguin Modern Classics)
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ISBN 10: 024145459X ISBN 13: 9780241454596
Editorial: Penguin Books, 2020

Sinopsis

'A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece' Chicago Sun Times

'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.

'Funny, sad and destructive ... an invention with its own crazy pull, it gnaws at the reader ... a stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity' The New York Times

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Acerca del autor

Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes, The Ark Sakura, The Face of Another, The Box Man and The Ruined Map.

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'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.

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Editorial
Penguin Books
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
024145459X
ISBN 13 
9780241454596
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
192
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9780375726514: The Box Man: A Novel (Vintage International)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0375726519 ISBN 13:  9780375726514
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001
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