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Confessions of a Mask

By Yukio Mishima

Book information

Publisher
New Directions
Year
1958
ISBN
081120118X, 9780811201186
LCC
58012637
Google Books ID
KpAj5LoyFz4C
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
277 kB (283755 bytes)
Series
New Directions Paperbook
Pages
255\0
Time added
2013-01-05 14:08:20

Description

Confessions of a Mask is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.Christopher Isherwood comments—"One might say, 'Here is a Japanese Gide,'....But no, Mishima is himself—a very Japanese Mishima; lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair, quite without pomposity, sentimentality or self-pity. His book, like no other, has made me understand a little of how it feels to be Japanese. I think it is greatly superior, as art and as a human document to his deservedly praised novel, The Sound of Waves."

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