Penguin Classics Face of Another (Penguin Modern Classics)
Type
Book
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ISBN 10
0141188537
ISBN 13
9780141188539
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
256p.;20cm.
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Description
The Japanese novelist Kobo 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. Alienated from his fellows, sexually rejected by his wife, the injured man painstakingly sets out to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. Yet once he achieves his goal, he realizes that he has not fashioned a disguise, but an alternate self -- a self that is capable of anything. The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order. - from Amzon
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1
