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  Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook) (Paperback) By (author) Yukio Mishima

  

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  Short Description for Confessions of a MaskOne of the classics of modern Japanese fiction.
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  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Published: 01 February 1958
  • Format: Paperback 254 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Studies: General | Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780811201186 ISBN 10: 081120118X
  • Sales rank: 62,542

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Full description for Confessions of a Mask

• 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."