Confessions of a Mask
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.
The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.
It tells the story of Kochan, a young gay man who is constantly torn between his desire for social acceptance and his vivid inner world of sexual imagery and morbid fantasies, and struggles to reconcile these warring sides of his own ...
... Confessions of a Mask ( Kamen no Kokuhaku ) . One of Mishima's purposes in writing Confessions of a Mask was to debunk the I - novelists , many of whom he believed merely chronicled in excruciating detail the dullness of their lives ...
... Confessions of a Mask had a special meaning . Like any other con- fession , Mishima's had to be public , though its meaning was probably not understood by most of his readers , even those who enjoyed the book as the story of a sensitive ...
... Confessions of a Mask begins his story at the very moment of his birth, claiming to remember details that may or may not correspond with reality. Evidence shows that they do not, but even so he cannot help but keep these memories as his ...
George Walsh. Yukio. Mishima: Confessions. of. a. Mask. Who Was Yukio Mishima Japanese author Yukio Mishima (a pseudonym for Kimitake Hiraoka) was born in Tokyo in 1925 and died there-he committed suicide-in 1970. Despite ... Confessions of a ...
... Confessions of a Mask ( New York : New Directions , 1958 ) , 6-7 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 . 13 . 14 . Confessions of a Mask , 10 . Confessions of a Mask , 20 . Confessions of a Mask , 8-10 , translation modified . Confessions of a Mask , 12 ...
... confession and criticism ... ' confidential criticism ' " : Sun and Steel.38 In Confessions of a Mask , we find the associations later represented by the fire , gold , and phoenix constellation in The Temple of the Golden Pavilion . The ...
... Confessions of a Mask, trans. Meredith Weatherby (London: Paladin Grafton Books, 1986). 12. Scott-Stokes, Life and ... Confessions of a Mask, 17. 32. Mishima, Confessions of a Mask, 18. 33. Mishima, Confessions of a Mask, 18. 34. Mishima ...
... Confessions of a Mask . I do not much like autobiographic fiction , but this was autobiographic fiction with a difference . Several differences actually , but one of them stood out , a singular eroticism . Japanese autobiographic ...