Mishima Yukio -- Confessions of a Mask
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50books_poc3. Mishima Yukio, Confessions of a Mask
This felt like a very familiar book to me, as someone who's read a number of introspective, first-person narrations with gay main characters (though few of those included the sadomasochistic elements that characterize this book). Additionally, and to the lessening of my own enjoyment of the book, the ending was less a conclusion than it was a stopping point.
The depiction of Japan during WWII is perceptive and affecting, however, and the writing style very clean. While I think some of Mishima's later works are more brilliant, this is still a novel worth reading.
This felt like a very familiar book to me, as someone who's read a number of introspective, first-person narrations with gay main characters (though few of those included the sadomasochistic elements that characterize this book). Additionally, and to the lessening of my own enjoyment of the book, the ending was less a conclusion than it was a stopping point.
The depiction of Japan during WWII is perceptive and affecting, however, and the writing style very clean. While I think some of Mishima's later works are more brilliant, this is still a novel worth reading.
