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'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain' A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again each night in his private fantasies the objects of his lust are tortured killed and maimed. But in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan there is no place for such transgressive desires. He must wear a false mask and hide his true nature whatever the cost. 'A terrific and astringent work of beauty' The Times Literary Supplement 'Mishima is lucid in the midst of emotional confusion funny in the midst of despair' Christopher Isherwood 'Never has a confession been freer from self-pity' Sunday Times
TITLE: Confessions of a Mask
AUTHOR: Yukio Mishima
SKU: 9780241301197
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 31/08/2017
PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom
PAGES: 176
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English;Japanese
DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
WEIGHT: 134 gr
