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Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1949
Originally in
Originally in Japanese
Pages
Pages 250

A Japanese boy discovers his desires point where his society forbids, and builds himself a mask of normality so careful that the performance becomes his life.

What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky.
Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima

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