Confessions Of A Mask. The unnamed protagonist struggles with his homosexuality and grows up isolated and consumed with fantasies of death and sadism. Like those novels, mishima's work is a bildungsroman, the story of a young man's growth to maturity.

Confessions of a mask (仮面の告白, kamen no kokuhaku) is the second novel by japanese author yukio mishima.

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. These institutions, in which many were built on the foundation of patriarchy, classism, racism and marginalization, are absolutely fascinating. Perhaps a slight word of warning is also appropriate. The main protagonist is referred to in the story as kochan. Mishima's novel is probably one of the most difficult books i've ever thought to review. He must wear a false mask and hide his true nature, whatever the cost. 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. A description of tropes appearing in confessions of a mask. Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, mizoguc. Confessions of a mask (仮面の告白 kamen no kokuhaku) is yukio mishima's first novel. Antique odd fellows masks by tops design i find the whole fuckery of masons in the us interesting.