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The Face of Another - (Vintage International) by Kobo Abe (Paperback)

The Face of Another - (Vintage International) by  Kobo Abe (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Japanese novelist Abe has often been compared to Kafka and this 1966 novel suggests an elegantly chilling postscript to "The Metamorphosis." Abe's narrator is a scientist who has been hideously deformed in a laboratory accident, a man who has lost his face in a society where "losing face" is a synonym for humiliation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Like an elegantly chilling postscript to <b>The Metamorphosis</b><i>, </i> 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. <p/>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, <i> </i><b>The Face of Another</b> is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A fascinating book.... The world of Kobo Abe is one in which intellectual concepts have the emotional impact and motivating power of psychotic compulsions."-<i>Newsweek</i> <p/>"A major novel... Since <b>The Woman in the Dunes</b>, Kobo Abe's stock as a novelist has been very high. <b>The Face of Another</b> raises it still more."-<i>The Christian Science Monitor <p/></i>"Probes the edges of a waking nightmare....The central, shaping metaphor of face and facelessness is brilliant, and Abe's relentless pursuit of its every implication is powerful."-<i>The Saturday Review</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. In 1948 he received a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist, and was also widely known as a dramatist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been best sellers in Japan. They include <b>The Woman in the Dunes</b><i>, </i><b>Kangaroo Notebook</b><i>, </i><b>The Ark Sakura</b><i>, </i><b>The Face of Another</b><i>, </i><b>The Box Man</b><i>, </i>and <b>The Ruined Map.<br></b>

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