# Confessions of a Mask

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- Book: [Confessions of a Mask](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima/confessions-of-a-mask) ([Confessions of a Mask.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima/confessions-of-a-mask.md))
- Authors: [Yukio Mishima](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Translated by: Meredith Weatherby
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-462-9
- Published: 2024-05-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in Guido Reni's painting; the objects of our hero's desire are tortured, killed and maimed, over and over again each night in his private fantasies. He must hide his lust from a homophobic and stiflingly conventional Japan. Self-loathing and desperate, he begins acting out a love affair with the sister of a school friend, while grappling with his hidden desires under the shadow of a Japan under threat from World War Two.