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  • Confessions of a Mask

    Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby

    Paperback (New Directions, Jan. 17, 1958)
    The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his homosexuality, he courts a woman, Sonoko, but this exacerbates his feelings for men. As news of the War reaches Tokyo, Kochan considers the fate of Japan and his place within its deeply rooted propriety. Confessions of a Mask reflects Mishima’s own coming of age in post-war Japan. Its publication in English―praised by Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, and Christopher Isherwood― propelled the young Yukio Mishima to international fame.
  • Confessions of a Mask

    YUKIO MISHIMA

    Paperback (Penguin Classics, )
    BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.
  • Confessions of a mask

    Yukio Mishima

    Hardcover (New Directions, March 15, 1958)
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  • Confessions of a Mask

    Mishima

    Paperback (HarperCollins Publishers, May 9, 1985)
    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."
  • CONFESSIONS OF A MASK

    Yukio Mishima

    Mass Market Paperback (Panther, March 15, 1977)
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  • Confessions of a Mask

    Yukio Mishima

    Paperback (New Directions, 1968, March 15, 1968)
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  • Confessions of a Mask

    Mishima

    Unknown Binding (Kodansha Europe, )
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  • Confessions of a Mask

    Yukio Mishima

    Paperback (Peter Owen Ltd, April 12, 2007)
    Confessions of a Mask
  • Confessions of a Mask

    Yukio Mishima

    Hardcover (Peter Owen Limited, March 15, 1960)
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  • Confessions of a Mask

    Yukio Mishima, M. Weatherby

    Paperback (Flamingo, April 15, 1990)
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  • Confessions of a Mask

    Yukio Mishima

    Paperback (Peter Owen Ltd, March 15, 1967)
    Book by Yukio Mishima
  • Confessions of a Mask

    Yukio Mishima

    Paperback (Charles E. Tuttle Co., March 15, 1971)
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