| The Face of Another Contributor(s): Abe, Kobo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375726535 ISBN-13: 9780375726538 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002028807 |
| Lexile Measure: 1030 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.23" W x 8.03" (0.44 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 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. |