On April 1st, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga of Japan revealed new imperial era’s name by holding up a board with characters ‘Reiwa’ on it. The term for the new era is made up of […]
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Masturbating in a Box as Metaphor: Thoughts on The Box Man by Kōbō Abe
Like the setting of Beckett plays, Kōbō Abe sets his entire novel in an unknown town. A nameless character in a box narrates the whole book–a “Box Man”, who shed his identity in society and […]