The Face of Another

Download or read book The Face of Another written by Kobo Abe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.