by Yukio Mishima · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420651545
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«Confesiones de una máscara» is the modern fiction novel by Yukio Mishima, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
Koo-chan narrates in the first person his youth in Japan in the thirties and forties. He discovers his attraction to Omi, but tries to fit into a conventional society by starting a relationship with Sonoko. The novel explores identity, repression and the fascination with beauty and death.
Confesiones de una máscara was originally published in 1949 and was Yukio Mishima's first major success. This 2010 edition includes the first direct translation from Japanese into Spanish.
Recommended for readers of coming-of-age novels, modern Japanese literature and LGBT fiction.
Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku. He is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language.
