The Man Inside (novel)


The Man Inside is a dream-like allegorical novel by W. Watts Biggers, published in 1968 by Ballantine Books as a paperback original.
At the time, because of the author's name and the tale of a quest for higher consciousness, some readers believed the novel had been written under a pseudonym by Alan Watts. Along with a description of the characters, the story was only briefly described on the back cover as "Strange, hallucinatory, following its own inner logic down unexpected paths, The Man Inside is a novel of startling originality, a journey towards wisdom--like Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf--that culminates in revelation." However, the opening page blurb elaborated;

Hardcover reprint

In 1999, The Man Inside was reissued by Bamberger Books as a hardcover. The hardback edition prompted an Epinions review by morganna53 who was familiar with the earlier paperback:

Film adaptation

It was optioned for a feature film by One Brick Films and featured March 27, 2006 on MySpace. This happened in a serendipitous fashion as director Kurt Burk, while waiting at a Los Angeles taco stand, wandered into a used book store and picked up the novel. Burk recalled, "It had these surreal but hopeful stories I had always wanted in my films. I felt like it had been written just for me." He contacted Biggers in 2003 and then filmed a short teaser to show how a feature adaptation could look.
One Brick's synopsis:

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