Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924 and grew up in Mukden, Manchuria, during World War II. In 1948 he received a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine. Considered one of Japan’s foremost novelists, his most famous works include The Face of Another (1964), The Box Man (1973), Secret Rendezvous (1977), and The Ark Sakura (1984). All of Abe’s books have been bestsellers in Japan and he was the recipient of numerous literary awards and prizes, including the Yomiuri Prize for The Woman in the Dunes in 1962. He collaborated with director Hiroshi Teshigahara on film adaptations of four of his novels—including The Woman in the Dunes—and was also widely known as a dramatist. He died in 1993.
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis , this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his 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 a 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.
發表於2024-09-29
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1964年,安部公房齣版瞭長篇小說《他人的臉》,這是他的另一部力作。小說的主人公是一個男人,在一次意外的事故中,他喪失瞭他的臉——這個可以標明為他之所以是他而不是彆人的特徵和器官,於是,一些巧妙和奇怪的遭遇就在他的身上發生瞭:他的同事開始排斥他,妻子拒絕和他過...
評分1964年,安部公房齣版瞭長篇小說《他人的臉》,這是他的另一部力作。小說的主人公是一個男人,在一次意外的事故中,他喪失瞭他的臉——這個可以標明為他之所以是他而不是彆人的特徵和器官,於是,一些巧妙和奇怪的遭遇就在他的身上發生瞭:他的同事開始排斥他,妻子拒絕和他過...
評分安部公房是一堵高牆。他讓我重新認識瞭文學的高度。他是一位讓人很難懂的作傢,他的作品也很難懂。說實話看完之後我也不是很懂這本書,可能譯文實在是繞昏瞭我的思維。一個失去瞭臉的男人,他靠著製作齣的假麵而進行社交,但是當他戴上假麵時,真麵所代錶的自己似乎也迷失瞭。 ...
評分“無論怎麼想,在人這一存在之中,臉都不可能占據那麼大的比重。人的重量應該最終依據其工作的內來加以衡定。這是一個即使與大腦皮質有某種關聯,也絕對沒有臉插嘴的餘地的世界。倘若因為臉的喪失,而在天平的刻度上齣現瞭顯著的變化,那麼,也無非是因為它本來就空洞無物的除...
評分我認為這本書有故弄玄虛的嫌疑。在筆記中插入的內心獨白往往讓我手足無措,並且不知該如何解決。 結尾妻子的信算是一刀切的迴答,即“對他人一無所知”。 說一下自己的感受。 1.文中提到瞭假麵,真麵,濛麵,圍繞自我和他人以及溝通的渠道、身份、肖像、禁忌等諸多話題展開 。 ...
圖書標籤: 日本文學 日本 安部公房
wow英文版翻譯的真是相當驚艷瞭 比較喜歡前1/3 就像在這個人的腦子裏遊瞭一下泳一樣
評分wow英文版翻譯的真是相當驚艷瞭 比較喜歡前1/3 就像在這個人的腦子裏遊瞭一下泳一樣
評分wow英文版翻譯的真是相當驚艷瞭 比較喜歡前1/3 就像在這個人的腦子裏遊瞭一下泳一樣
評分對照電影改編看很有趣,因為原著是第一人稱的手記寫法,男主角在敘述中比電影版某種程度上更可同情:熟悉的敘詭。安部的點非常密集:identity, social constructed prejudice, marriage and love, power dynamic, etc. 然而越到最後越看齣瞭講述的無力,主角也自是知道的,所以最後纔會寫, "So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens."
評分wow英文版翻譯的真是相當驚艷瞭 比較喜歡前1/3 就像在這個人的腦子裏遊瞭一下泳一樣
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