The Face of Another
Pocketbok. Vintage . 2003.
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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.
"Probes the edges of a waking nightmare.... The central, shaping metaphor of face and facelessness is brilliant, and Abe's relentless pursuit of its every implication is powerful."
—The Saturday Review.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780375726538
- Titel
- The face of another
- Författare
- Abe, Kōbō
- Förlag
- Vintage Books
- Utgivningsår
- 2003
- Omfång
- 237 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Pbk
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- The Japanese novelist Abe has often been compared to Kafka and this 1966 novel suggests an elegantly chilling postscript to "The Metamorphosis." Abe's narrator is a scientist who has been hideously deformed in a laboratory accident, a man who has lost his face in a society where "losing face" is a synonym for humiliation.
