他人の顔

aka Tanin no kao

The Face of Another

AuthorKōbō Abe

LanguageJapanese

Year1964

CountryJapan

GenreNovel

east asiamodern japan

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The Face of Another is a 1964 novel written by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe. Like other stories written by this author, the novel explores the alienation of modern man from urban society. It is written in the first person narrative mode, and is divided into a prologue, three "notebooks", and a concluding letter from the protagonist's wife. In 1966, it was adapted into a film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara.— Wikipedia