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The Face of Another

By Kobo Abe

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| Paperback | 9780375726538

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Book Description

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 losContinue

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Kobo Abe: The Face of Another

Kobo Abe’s The Face of Another (1966) has a better cover than The Woman in the Dunes, but that cheap thrill is soon forgotten when ploughing through this turgid tome. The blurb makes it sound almost thrilling, like an updated Invisible Man: The narra ... (read full critics)

theasylum published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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Autobiographic notes about the masks in the human being

Write as authobiographic notes. This work is about one scientific whose face is destroyed by a laboral accident... His souffering, his evolution as a lonely person because of the mask he has to wear all the time and his relationship with the "others". Excelent psichological portrait of the human bei ... (continue)

Write as authobiographic notes. This work is about one scientific whose face is destroyed by a laboral accident... His souffering, his evolution as a lonely person because of the mask he has to wear all the time and his relationship with the "others". Excelent psichological portrait of the human being in the society.

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