A review by yongbene
The Face of Another by Kōbō Abe

4.0

horror by way of society. kōbō abe not only could foresee our impending reliance on faces, outlooks and image, but the horror and pain that would amount from all of it. i will not lie and say that some philosophical musings went over my head and some merely did nothing but perplex me even more than i already had been with abe's kafkaesque backdrops and visualisations, but they all amount to this jaw-dropping finale which could make even the most absent-minded person dwell on the philosophy of abe's strange world of minds and faces; blending in and out of society and penetrating the psychological with all of its might.