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Yukio Mishima
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Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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254 |
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1958-01-17 |
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081120118X |
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New Directions |
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0.85 pounds |
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5.12 x 0.79 x 7.87 inches |
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2nd Printing |
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Product Description
One of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. 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."
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http://bookmooch.com/081120118X |
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