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The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.

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"Yukio Mishima was one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century." -- Judith Thurman - New Yorker
"In Confessions of a Mask a literary artist of delicate sensibility and startling candor has chosen to write for the few rather than the many. " -- Ben Ray Redman - The New York Times
"We read the bloody details with wonder…such is the power of his writing." -- Gore Vidal - The New York Review of Books
"Confessions of a Mask follows in the spirit of Oscar Wilde’s dictum that ‘man is least himself when he talks in his own person. ‘Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.’" -- Wired

Confessions of a Mask New Directions Paperbook

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    A Paperback / softback by Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/1958
      ISBN13: 9780811201186, 978-0811201186
      ISBN10: 081120118X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.

      Trade Review
      "Yukio Mishima was one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century." -- Judith Thurman - New Yorker
      "In Confessions of a Mask a literary artist of delicate sensibility and startling candor has chosen to write for the few rather than the many. " -- Ben Ray Redman - The New York Times
      "We read the bloody details with wonder…such is the power of his writing." -- Gore Vidal - The New York Review of Books
      "Confessions of a Mask follows in the spirit of Oscar Wilde’s dictum that ‘man is least himself when he talks in his own person. ‘Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.’" -- Wired

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