“The Man Who Lost His Face”
We are able to pick out someone familiar from a crowd with just a glance—our brain instantly processes a mass of information. But all it takes is for a person to change their hairstyle or have plastic surgery, and we no longer recognize them. That is to say, by changing his face, he becomes a stranger and, if he wishes, can begin a new life—life from scratch.
Having fallen in love, the brilliant comic shorty Tonio Presto gives up the grotesque appearance that had made him famous with the public and brought him millions. After a series of operations, he is a different person. Only it turns out that no one needs him like this. Now Tonio has to build his relationships with the world from a blank page…
Ten years after the publication of “The Man Who Lost His Face,” Belyaev returned to his hero and revised the novel, changing Tonio Presto’s fate beyond recognition in the book “The Man Who Found His Own Face.” Comparing the plot lines of the two novels will give the reader real pleasure!