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The Face of Another (Japanese: 他人の顔, Hepburn: Tanin no kao) is a 1964 novel written by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe. Like other stories written by this author, the novel explores the alienation of modern man from urban society.
Kobo Abe's book The Face of Another takes the form of the notebooks of a mad scientist. The scientist (who serves as the story's narrator) was disfigured by a lab accident, but the scars from that incident were not merely physical: Being disfigured has furthermore driven him insane.
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Feb 4, 2003 · by Kobo Abe (Author) 4.3 144 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
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Dec 14, 2011 · The Face of Another (Vintage International) Kindle Edition. 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.
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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.
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The Face of Another Hardcover – January 1, 1966. by Kobo Abe (Author) 4.3 146 ratings. See all formats and editions. Abe's 3rd novel of the man in search of his soul. Originally published in Japan, this is translated by E. Dale Saunders. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length. 237 pages. Language. English. Publisher.
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Dec 14, 2011 · The Face of Another. Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the...
