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The Box Man

Kōbō Abe (1973)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy

Age groupAdult 18+

Content ratingR

Pages (Standard (250-400))

Setting

CSM age18+

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Content levels

ViolenceMild

Sexual contentMild

LanguageModerate

Trigger warnings

Mental Illness Isolation Identity Crisis

Positive tags

Philosophical Experimental Narrative

Protagonist archetypes

Outcast / Loner Unreliable Narrator

Tropes

Unreliable Narrator Fish out of Water Alienation

Themes

Identity Alienation Existentialism Isolation Modern Alienation Psychological Exploration Urban Anonymity

Synopsis

The author combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.

Tags

Literary FictionExperimentalPsychologicalSurrealismPhilosophical Fiction