Confessions of a mask.
By: Translated by Meredith Weatherby.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1958
Place of publication: [Norfolk, Conn
Language: eng; jpn
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Japan -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A classic of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in a polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.
Notes: Translation of Kamen no Kokuhaku.