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Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima.
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Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was a Japanese novelist and playwright. He wrote in a multitude of styles, from ornate to plain, and dealt with a variety of subjects drawn from both literary sources and con...
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Life magazine once called Yukio Mishima "the Japanese Hemingway," while Japan's first Nobel laureate, Yasunari Kawabata, "declared that a `writer of his caliber appears only once every 200 or 300 year...
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More than two decades after his death, Mishima Yukio is arguably still the most famous writer modern Japan has produced. The reasons for this fame are both complex and controversial. His critics may s...
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Critical Essay by Noriko Mizuta Lippit
[When] Mishima stated that he had "somehow conquered his inner monster" by writing Confessions of a Mask, it did not mean merely that he had finall...
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In the following essay, Rhine argues that Mishima's novel Confessions of a Mask can best be understood through the later chapters of the novel, in which the work becomes “theatrical ...
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In the following essay, Smith examines Mishima's revelation and concealment in Confessions of a Mask.
Confessions of a Mask (Kamen no Kokuhaku) was written in Japan just after World War II and ...
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Teaching Confessions of a Mask
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Confessions of a Mask Lesson Plans contain 121 pages of teaching material, including:
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Yukio Mishima
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Critical Essay by Noriko Mizuta Lippit
