Confessions of a Mask (work Series by Yukio Mishima)
by H
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"The first private novel in my life... I want to leave a suicide note to the realm of death where I used to live." The famous work of the Japanese literary wizard Mishima Yukio, a monument to Mishima's youthful passion, caused a huge sensation in the Japanese literary world after its publication, telling the story of Mishima Yukio's growth process in adolescence. "Confessions of a Mask" is a novella published by Yukio Mishima in 1949. It is also Mishima Yukio's famous work. The work has a keen and delicate grasp of the characters' psychology, and is permeated with the author's sensitive traits. His thinking is complicated and detailed, he repeatedly doubts, overthrows and overthrows, and then rebuilds. Twenty-four-year-old Mishima Yukio uses perverted introverted confessions and combines autobiographical plots and stories to intellectually explore his inner world, starting from a kind of social psychological repression to fight against the constraints of traditional order and values. The work first describes "my" birth and family situation, and then introduces readers to "my" strange inner world when I was five years old, and then describes "my" bold psychology in adolescence. "I" felt ashamed of my natural weakness, longed for a strong and wild body, and was determined to carry out spiritual self-training. During the war, "I" approached the opposite sex with the mentality of trying to fall in love, and finally fell in love with my classmate's sister Sonoko, but the relationship ended because I felt that I was not capable. After the war, Sonoko married someone else, but "I" tried to still date her secretly, trying to completely give up the spiritual love of sensuality.
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