The Face of Another 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

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 byLike 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 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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Title: [PDF] ✓ Free Read Ê The Face of Another : by Kōbō Abe E. Dale Saunders í
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K b Abe Abe K b , pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe, was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor He was the son of a doctor and studied medicine at Tokyo University He never practised however, giving it up to join a literary group that aimed to apply surrealist techniques to Marxist ideology.Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities.He was first published as a poet in 1947 with Mumei shishu Poems of an unknown poet and as a novelist the following year with Owarishi michi no shirube ni The Road Sign at the End of the Street , which established his reputation Though he did much work as an avant garde novelist and playwright, it was not until the publication of The Woman in the Dunes in 1962 that he won widespread international acclaim.In the 1960s, he collaborated with Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara in the film adaptations of The Pitfall, Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another and The Ruined Map In 1973, he founded an acting studio in Tokyo, where he trained performers and directed plays He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977.