Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
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Editions of Confessions of a Mask
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher New Directions |
Date 1958 |
Price $4.25 |
 Very Good |
Publisher Notes
This book is one of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. It 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 a polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.
Media Reviews
"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'."
First Line
For many years I claimed I could remember things seen at the time of my own birth.
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