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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Teaser Tuesday[244]: Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

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!

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Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
Genre: Adult Fiction, Japanese Literature
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date: 1958

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."

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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