"A fascinating book.... The world of Kobo Abe is one in which intellectual concepts have the emotional impact and motivating power of psychotic compulsions."-
Newsweek "A major novel... Since
The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe's stock as a novelist has been very high.
The Face of Another raises it still more."-
The Christian Science Monitor "Probes the edges of a waking nightmare....The central, shaping metaphor of face and facelessness is brilliant, and Abe's relentless pursuit of its every implication is powerful."-
The Saturday Review