Confessions of a mask

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Confessions of a Mask is a 1949 novel by Japanese author Yukio Mishima. This particualr tome, was published by New Directions Publishing of New York, in 1958. This is the 7th printing. The novel centers around a man known as Kochan, who was born into a militaristic and imperialist era of Japan and struggles to fit into society. Despite being born with a less than ideal body type and a weak constitution, he battles to establish himself in the dominant culture. Complicating matters, Kochan is…

'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain' 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.......

Confessions of a Mask by Mishima, Yukio - ISBN 10: 0586037241 - ISBN 13: 9780586037249 - Panther - 1972 - Hardcover

Confession of a mask

Confessions of a Mask

'Confessions of a Mask' is Yukio Mishima's second novel, published in 1949.

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