The Face of Another by Kōbō Abe

The Face of Another

Kōbō Abe with E. Dale Saunders (Translator)

438 pages first pub 1964 (editions)

fiction classics horror science fiction reflective slow-paced
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Kobo Abe's The Face of Another is a psychological study in which the moment-to-moment eventfulness makes much of it read like melodrama. The protagonist is a scientist whose face is disfigured in a laboratory explosion. He feels cut off from the h...

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