A psychological tale of calculated murder unfolds in this short but evocative novel by Yukio Mishima (1925–70) about a boy, his widowed mother, and her new relationship with a sailor whose career serves as a testament to his distaste for… Read More ›
Confessions of a Mask, a post war autobiographical novel, subverts the conventions of the traditional and dominant Japanese “I” novel of the 20th century. This book, Yukio Mishima’s (1925–70) first commercial success, received praise from the Japanese literary elite and… Read More ›
The world will never know what course the literary career of Yukio Mishima might have taken had he not died at the age of forty-five. Nevertheless, he was the best known of post-World War II writers among critics and readers… Read More ›
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