Geoffrey's review
Confessions of a Mask (Peter Owen Modern Classics)
by Yukio Mishima
Geoffrey's review
Confessions of a Mask (Peter Owen Modern Classics) by Yukio Mishima
Geoffrey's review
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I stole this book from some loser with whom I went on a date. This was the only good thing to come of that experience. Mishima's account of coming to accept his homosexuality is engrossing. While his prose is a bit clunky (perhaps in translation), it serves to fill the gap regarding the history of homosexuality in Japan. I taught this novel in an LGBT lit class and supplemented it with an excerpt from Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. My students enjoyed the pairing.
