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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... read more
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“If one did not create things, there would be no history, no world either, and perhaps indeed man himself as a thinking being would not have evolved.”
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At last you have come, threading your way through the endless passages of the maze.
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This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
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Publication Date: 1959
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- Dewey: 895.635
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- The Face of Another (IMDb): 1966.
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