The Face of Another is a terrifying tale, but Kobo Abe' has deftly handled it with a haunting personal charm. It is a strong indictment against society and against the agony of existence, but made palatable by the first person narrator point of view, together with occasional excursus into his own mind. It could be a sordid confessional novel, but one is carried away by long' flowing lines and simple evocative language reminiscent of Kafka and Doestoevsky.
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