num_pages: 96
description: All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section screaming and yelling to attract his attentionthey would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot the camera begins to roll someone yells action; Rikio for a moment transforms into another being a hardened young yakuza but as soon as the shot is finished he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions.Being a star constantly performing being watched and scrutinized as if under a microscope is often a drag. But so is life. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film Afraid to Die this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams. With exquisite vivid prose Star begs the question: is there any escape from how we are seen by others? 
language: English
title: Star
publisher: New Directions