Confessions of a Mask
by:
Yukio Mishima (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780720610314 (0720610311)
Publish date: October 27th 1998
Publisher: Peter Owen
Pages no: 224
Edition language: Japanese
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Asian Literature,
Japan,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gay,
Japanese Literature
Confessions of a Mask (1949) rocketed Yukio Mishima to the literary prominence he so desperately sought as a struggling modern writer. The novel explores the obsessions of a young man suffering inwardly with erotic fantasies of men, beauty and violence. He strains to conform to a heterosexual life w...
“What we call evil is the instability inherent in all mankind which drives man outside and beyond himself toward an unfathomable something, exactly as though nature had bequeathed to our souls an ineradicable portion of instability from her store of ancient chaos.”- Stephan Zweig. ...
The story was beautifully written, however I felt suffocated halfway through the story. I understand the protagonist's pains and suffers, he has to hide behind a mask so that he wont shunned out from the society. (Remind me of LGBT in this country. yah, I don't want to talk much about it.) So, basic...
What a great book! Mishima did a great job of depicting the story of a Japanese adolescent in Japanese society realizing that he is gay and thus having to wear a mask to hide his true self. There is so much mental confusion going through the protagonist's head, a great psychological account not only...
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