The Face of Another

Fiction & Literature, Psychological, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, Literary
Cover of the book The Face of Another by Kobo Abe, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Kobo Abe ISBN: 9780307813725
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: December 14, 2011
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Kobo Abe
ISBN: 9780307813725
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: December 14, 2011
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis*,* this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him.

His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such a mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self–a self that is capable of anything. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity and the social contract,The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.

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Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis*,* this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him.

His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such a mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self–a self that is capable of anything. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity and the social contract,The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.

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