Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. I think it is greatly superior, as art and as a human document to his deservedly praised novel, The Sound of Waves.' One of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. His book, like no other, has made me understand a little of how it feels to be Japanese. After a year he quit his job at the Ministry of Finance and became a full time writer. He wrote this novel shortly after he graduated law school in 1947. 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. Yukio Mishima was drafted in 1944 and narrowly missed fighting in the Phillipines due to a failed medical exam. Genres Fiction Japan Japanese Literature Classics LGBT Queer Novels. Its publication in Englishpraised by Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, and Christopher Isherwoodpropelled the young Yukio Mishima to international fame. Sebastian A Prose Poem by Yukio Mishima(from Confessions of a Mask,1949) Out of a schoolroom window once I spied a tree of middling height, swaying in the wind.

To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.Christopher Isherwood comments-'One might say, ' Here is a Japanese Gide, '. Confessions of a Mask reflects Mishima’s own coming of age in post-war Japan. Mishima' s protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. Confessions of a Mask : Yukio Mishima : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima Publication date 1958 Topics Japanese Fiction. 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.