Confession of the mask. Mishima Yu.

The novel of the famous Japanese writer Yukio Misima (1925-1970) “The Confession of the Mask”, who glorified the twenty-four-year-old author and brought him world fame, is largely autobiographical. The key theme of this famous work is the topic of death in which the hero of the story sees the “true purpose of life”. Mishima scrupulously explores his own mental structure, getting to the very essence of his “I”...

Translation from Japanese G. Chkartishvili (B. Akunin).