Confessions of a Mask
$22.95
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2017
Summary
The dawning of a young man’s homosexual and sadistic desires. A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in Guido Reni’s painting; the objects of our hero’s desire are tortured, killed, and maimed, over and over again each night in his private fantasies. He must hide his lust from a homophobic and stiflingly conventional Japan. Self-loathing and desperate, he begins acting out a love affair with the sister of a school friend, while grappling with his hidden desires under the shadow of a Japan under threat from World War Two.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241301197 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024130119X |
| Author: | Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 128mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A writer of immense energy and ability
Mishima is lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair – Christopher Isherwood
Never has a “confession” been freer from self-pity and emotional over-indulgence * Sunday Times *
A writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out *
A terrific and astringent work of beauty… a work of art * Times Literary Supplement *
Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of Japan’s most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests besides writing included body-building, acting, and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realising this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times.
His major novels include:
- Confessions of a Mask
- Forbidden Colours
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
- The Sea of Fertility (tetralogy):
- Spring Snow
- Runaway Horses
- The Temple of Dawn
- The Decay of the Angel
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