The Face of Another

Informationen zum Autor Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan. They include THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES, THE ARK SAKURA, THE FACE OF ANOTHER, THE BOX MAN, and THE RUINED MAP. Klappentext The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, 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 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. Zusammenfassung The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, 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 mask is more than a disguise.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: K Abe, Kobo Abe, N Kaori, Kaori Nagai
• Collaboration: Kaori Nagai (Introduction), Nagai Kaori (Introduction), E. Dale Saunders (Traduction)
• Edition: Penguin Books Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 28.09.2006
• EAN: 9780141188539
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118853-9
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Thèmes: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary