But overall I can recommend the book for advanced readers. While the beginning and the end of the book are excellent and I had a hard time stop reading, in the middle there are some passages that for my feeling got too long and too philosophical.
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The book is full of philosophical ramblings on the meaning of faces in our society. But his ultimate aim is to open the way of communication with his wife again. He succeeds in tricking everyone to accept his new identity. He decides to create a new face, a mask, nearly perfect. After this his life changes completely, the connection with his wife is getting worse and worse. The story is divided into three so called notebooks, telling the story of the scientist whose face got seriously burned.
So my expectations were very high when starting “The Face of Another”. The movie, from the mid-60ies, is a piece of art by itself, too. An extravagant story of a man getting lost in the dunes not to return. The Woman in the Dunes, which also made it into a movie, was recommended to me by a good friend. Like Woman in the Dunes, the first book of Kobo Abe I read, a story very strange and very startling. It is the story of a person whose face got severely damaged in an accident, and who builds a new face. I just finished another book of Kobo Abe ( 安部公房), called “ The Face of Another” ( 他人の顔).
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