![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Confessions of a Mask : Yukio Mishima : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima Publication date 1958 Topics Japanese Fiction. I think it is greatly superior, as art and as a human document to his deservedly praised novel, The Sound of Waves.' One of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. His book, like no other, has made me understand a little of how it feels to be Japanese. ![]() 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. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.Christopher Isherwood comments-'One might say, ' Here is a Japanese Gide, '. Mishima' s protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. ![]() 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. ![]()
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