Confessions of a mask
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-19702017
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A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed and maimed. But, in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan there is no place for such transgressive desires. He must wear a false mask and hide his true nature, whatever the cost. This autobiographical novel, regarded as Mishima's finest book, is the haunting story of a Japanese boy's development towards homosexuality during and after the Second World War.
Main title:
Confessions of a mask / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Meredith Weatherby.
Author:
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970, authorWeatherby, Meredith, translator
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2017.
Collation:
169 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
This translation originally published: Norfolk: New Directions, 1958.
ISBN:
9780241301197 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
895.635
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
2201874