Confessions of a Mask is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima"s protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.

Christopher Isherwood comments-"One might say, "Here is a Japanese Gide,"....But no, Mishima is himself-a very Japanese Mishima; lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair, quite without pomposity, sentimentality or self-pity. His book, like no other, has made me understand a little of how it feels to be Japanese. I think it is greatly superior, as art and as a human document to his deservedly praised novel, The Sound of Waves." Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima)