Женщина в песках. Чужое лицо

Kobo Abe is a famous Japanese prose writer and playwright. The scale of his talent is enormous, his books are mysterious, fascinating and paradoxical. These original parable novels tell the story of people who are under the power of an obsession or who find themselves in a situation similar to a fantastic dream.

This is exactly the most famous work of Kobo Abe - “Woman in the Sands”. The main character, an ordinary teacher, obsessed with the dream of discovering a new species of insects, disappears without a trace. He finds himself a prisoner in a strange village, continuously covered with sand...

The hero of the novel “Alien Face”, as a result of an accident, is forced to create a new face-mask for himself, using it to isolate himself from contacts with the outside world. However, by changing his face, he feels his personality changing. The mask not only shrouds the person wearing it in some kind of mystery, but also provokes new, sometimes very strange desires...