The Face of Another
Kobo Abe
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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Kobo AbePublisher: VintagePublished: 02/04/2003ISBN: 9780375726538Pages: 256Weight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.56d
Book Title
The Face of Another
ISBN
9780375726538
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Kobo Abe
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/04/2003
ISBN: 9780375726538
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.56d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Kobo Abe
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/04/2003
ISBN: 9780375726538
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.56d
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Kobo Abe
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/04/2003
ISBN: 9780375726538
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.56d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Kobo Abe
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/04/2003
ISBN: 9780375726538
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.56d