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Confessions of a Mask

By Yukio Mishima

Confessions of a Mask

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'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. He must wear a false mask and hide his true nature, whatever the cost. 'A terrific and astringent work of beauty' The Times Literary Supplement'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' Sunday Times
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2017-09-07
Publication Date:
2017-09-07
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
024130119X
ISBN13:
9780241301197
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
139 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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