Confessions of a Mask

Author:   Yukio Mishima ,  Meredith Weatherby
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
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9780241301197


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   07 September 2017
Format:   Paperback
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The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in Guido Reni's painting; the objects of our hero's desire are tortured, killed and maimed, over and over again each night in his private fantasies. He must hide his lust from a homophobic and stiflingly conventional Japan. Self-loathing and desperate, he begins acting out a love affair with the sister of a school friend, while grappling with his hidden desires under the shadow of a Japan under threat from World War Two.

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Author:   Yukio Mishima ,  Meredith Weatherby
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.134kg
ISBN:  

9780241301197


ISBN 10:   024130119
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   07 September 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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Mishima is lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair -- Christopher Isherwood Never has a confession been freer from self-pity and emotional over-indulgence Sunday Times A writer of immense energy and ability Time Out A terrific and astringent work of beauty... a work of art Times Literary Supplement


A terrific and astringent work of beauty... a work of art * Times Literary Supplement * A writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out * Never has a confession been freer from self-pity and emotional over-indulgence * Sunday Times * Mishima is lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair -- Christopher Isherwood


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Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the Japan's most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests besides writing included body-building, acting, and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realising this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature three times. His major novels include Confessions of a Mask, Forbidden Colours (also a Penguin Modern Classic), The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea and the tetralogy The Sea of Fertility- Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn and The Decay of the Angel.

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