Scan barcode
A review by sky_reaper
The Face of Another by Kōbō Abe
3.0
I assumed facelessness equates to freedom, but then again, I'd realized it's just freedom from dependency on human connection and relationship. The idea of losing responsibility to explain and be seen, turning to be a spectator of a scene that is your life. A renegade.
On the other hand, nothing could be further from the truth that this anonymity only gives us a deeper sense of loneliness and/or solitude that sets up deep apart like a crevice that is unknown, unheard, and unseen from anyone else -- and nothing could be more painful than to be a disconnected soul.
The existential treatment made by the author to explore the identity and its crisis could be further related to our current situation brought by modern technology. I won't be furthering it much, but I'd enjoyed reading it from the first notebook and the letter of the wife in the third one.
I'd still remember the quaint feeling of reading The Box Man a few odd years ago in our university library. It has this same faint vibe on the theme, but I think I'd like the former as better than this one.
On the other hand, nothing could be further from the truth that this anonymity only gives us a deeper sense of loneliness and/or solitude that sets up deep apart like a crevice that is unknown, unheard, and unseen from anyone else -- and nothing could be more painful than to be a disconnected soul.
The existential treatment made by the author to explore the identity and its crisis could be further related to our current situation brought by modern technology. I won't be furthering it much, but I'd enjoyed reading it from the first notebook and the letter of the wife in the third one.
I'd still remember the quaint feeling of reading The Box Man a few odd years ago in our university library. It has this same faint vibe on the theme, but I think I'd like the former as better than this one.