Book Club: World Literature, The Box Man by Kōbō Abe | San Francisco Public Library

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Kōbō Abe's The Box Man is an original and bizarrely fascinating Kafkaesque fable about the nature of identity and the place of man in society. Come ready to talk about the book.

The Box Man is also available using the Internet Archives', National Emergency Library. The title may be checked out for 14 days.

The World Literature Book Club will be an online event until further notice, using the Zoom platform.

The meeting link will be sent the day of the event.

Reservations required: https://bit.ly/TheBoxMan

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