The Face of Another
The Face of Another by Kobo Abe is a reprint edition published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on February 4, 2003. This 256-page work of postwar Japanese literature explores the unsettling journey of a scientist who, after a laboratory accident leaves him hideously deformed, grapples with his loss of identity and connection to others. Stripped of his face, he creates a mask that allows him to re-enter society, only to discover that this disguise transforms him into an alternate self, raising profound questions about nature and identity.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into themes of psychological transformation and the complexities of human relationships. The story serves as a meditation on the social contract and the duplicities inherent in personal interactions. Through its blend of psychological and magical realism, The Face of Another invites contemplation on the nature of self and the masks people wear in their daily lives. This edition is presented in English, making it accessible to a wider audience interested in literary fiction that challenges conventional perceptions of identity.
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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.
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