Teaser Tuesday is a
weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should
Be Reading.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
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Confessions
of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
Genre:
Adult Fiction, Japanese Literature
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing
Release
Date:
1958
Buy
it here:
Amazon. Barnes and Noble. Book Depository.
Goodreads
Synopsis:
Confessions of a Mask
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 polite, post-war Japan. To survive,
he must live behind a mask of propriety.
Christopher Isherwood comments—"One might say, 'Here is a Japanese Gide,'....But no, Mishima is himself—a very Japanese Mishima; lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair, quite without pomposity, sentimentality or self-pity. His book, like no other, has made me understand a little of how it feels to be Japanese. I think it is greatly superior, as art and as a human document to his deservedly praised novel, The Sound of Waves."
Christopher Isherwood comments—"One might say, 'Here is a Japanese Gide,'....But no, Mishima is himself—a very Japanese Mishima; lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair, quite without pomposity, sentimentality or self-pity. His book, like no other, has made me understand a little of how it feels to be Japanese. I think it is greatly superior, as art and as a human document to his deservedly praised novel, The Sound of Waves."
Excerpt:
“That
day, the instant I looked upon the picture, my entire being trembled
with some pagan joy.”
(Paperback, pg. 40)
I'm
reading it for my Japanese Lit class, and figured why not?
What
are you reading right now?
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