Yukio Mishima Confessions of a Mask (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Confessions of a MaskCondition: NewEAN: 9780241301197ISBN: 9780241301197Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/07/2017Language: JapaneseItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 9mmItem Weight: 134gAuthor: Yukio MishimaISBN-10: 024130119XDescription: '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 TimesCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBTranslator: Meredith WeatherbyContributor: Meredith Weatherby (Translated by)Book Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsGenre: FictionTopic: RomanceRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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