The Face of Another
1967; University of Oklahoma; Volume: 41; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/40121967
ISSN2327-1302
AutoresGeorge Mchlroy, Kōbō Abe, E. Dale Saunders, Robert Steele Wallace,
Tópico(s)Contemporary Literature and Criticism
ResumoThe Japanese novelist Kobo 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 in a society where losing face is a synonym for humiliation. Alienated from his fellows, sexually rejected by his wife, the injured man painstakingly sets out to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. Yet once he achieves his goal, he realizes that he has not fashioned a disguise, but an alternate self -- a self that is capable of anything. The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.
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