An edition of Confessions of a Mask
(1958)
Confessions of a mask.
by 三島由紀夫 and Meredith Weatherby
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A classic of modern Japanese fiction. It 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 a polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.
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Confessions of a Mask (Peter Owen Modern Classics)
October 1998, Peter Owen Ltd
Paperback
- New Ed edition
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Confessions of a Mask
1958, New Directions Books.
in English
- Twenty Third Printing.
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Confessions of a Mask
Publish date unknown, New Directions Publishing Corporation
Paperback
in English
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Translation of Kamen no Kokuhaku.
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"For many years I claimed I could remember things seen at the time of my own birth."
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Confessions of a Mask is Japanese author Yukio Mishima's second novel. Published in 1949, it launched him to national fame though he was only in his early twenties.
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