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| Author | Kōbō Abe |
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| Original title | 他人の顔 Tanin no kao |
| Translator | E. Dale Saunders |
| Illustrator | Robert Steele Wallace [US ed.] |
| Language | Japanese |
| Publisher | Kodansha |
Publication date | 1964 |
| Publication place | Japan |
Published in English | 1966 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 387 [Japanese ed.] |
The Face of Another (Japanese: 他人の顔, Hepburn: Tanin no kao) 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.[1] It is written in the first person narrative mode, and is divided into a prologue, three "notebooks" (black, gray, and white), and a concluding letter from the protagonist's wife.[2] In 1966, it was adapted into a film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara.[3]
- ^ Hoover, William (2019). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan, 2nd edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 11. ISBN 9781538111550.
- ^ Abe, Kobo (1980). The face of another. Internet Archive. New York : Perigee Books. ISBN 978-0-399-50484-6.
- ^ Teshigahara, Hiroshi (1967-06-09), Tanin no kao (Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi), Teshigahara Productions, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd., retrieved 2022-04-17