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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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The Face of Another, Kōbō Abe
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2003
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- Titel
- The Face of Another
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Kōbō Abe
- Uitgever
- Vintage
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2003
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0375726535
- ISBN13
- 9780375726538
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Fantasy, Science-fiction, Klassiekers, Horror, Japan, Verfilmd, Japanse literatuur, Psychologische romans, Wetenschappers, Maskers
- Eerste editie
- 1964
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- Tanin no kao
- Beoordeling
- 3,8 van 5
- Aantekening
- 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.