Kobo Abe is a famous Japanese prose writer and playwright. The scale of his talent is enormous, his books are mysterious, fascinating and paradoxical. These original parable novels tell about people who are under the power of an obsession or who find themselves in a situation similar to a fantastic dream. The hero of the novel “The Box Man,” hiding from a society that he hated, placed himself in a special box, thereby turning, as it were, into new creature. He wanders aimlessly through the streets of Tokyo, covering the walls of his self-imposed prison with descriptions of the outside world, which may only be a reflection of his darkest fantasies...