Zulieka's review
Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook)
by Yukio Mishima
Zulieka's review
Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook) by Yukio Mishima
Zulieka's review
rating:
What most people don't like about Mishima is his terrible (as in Ivan the Terrible) lucidity. Reading his work, especially in the original Japanese, the reader becomes self-conscious of a prickle in the mind. This is Mishima poking around in the reader's brain with a pair of chopsticks, pulling out fat sour tidbits.
Confessions of a Mask follows the discovery of a young boy of his homosexuality in a totally apolitical, humiliating starkness. The author himself is disgusted with his character, and writes this at least partially autobiographical novel with no endearments or nostalgia. I love especially the brutally written descriptions of masturbation.
Confessions of a Mask follows the discovery of a young boy of his homosexuality in a totally apolitical, humiliating starkness. The author himself is disgusted with his character, and writes this at least partially autobiographical novel with no endearments or nostalgia. I love especially the brutally written descriptions of masturbation.
