"Confessions of a Mask" Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima Translator: Sun Rongcheng/Dai Huan Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House

I will always be a teenager, always sixteen years old. Please don't take anything I say seriously.

I mustered up the courage to expose what people were cautious about and kept silent about. "Confessions of a Mask" is a novel that I was able to write with the power and grace of the times. - Yukio Mishima

A world-renowned literary classic, the representative work of the literary master Yukio Mishima, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize twice. "Confessions of a Mask" shocked the Japanese literary world as soon as it was published, and Yukio Mishima officially entered his career as a professional writer with this work.

I had to perform against my will. What others thought I was performing was actually the real me that I wanted to return to; and what others thought was my natural self was actually the one I was performing.

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Pain tells me this: "You are not human. You are incommunicable. You are an inhuman, wonderful, and pathetic creature."

There is one thing, the mere mention of which makes me shudder, and I have been deceiving myself that it will not come. That is the "daily life" of human beings. The fact is that it will begin tomorrow without any explanation.

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"Confessions of a Mask" is a suicide note that I want to leave for the death realm where I have lived so far. Writing this book is a kind of reverse suicide for me. - Yukio Mishima

The Nobel Prize I won should be awarded to Yukio Mishima. A talented writer like him is hard to come by once every two or three hundred years. - Yasunari Kawabata

"Confessions of a Mask" opens a new chapter in the history of Japanese literature. ——Hanada Seiki (Japanese critic)

Mishima is a solitary modern artist who uses the gorgeous armor of language to wrap his delicate and fragile body. He bets everything on the world of language. For him, life is "language" and "language" is life. The immature body has become a prisoner of "language". It is in this place that Mishima Yukio's happiness and misfortune are born from the starting point of his life and literature. - Nojima Hidekatsu (Japanese critic)

Among Mishima's many works, "Confessions of a Mask" is particularly amazing. "Confessions of a Mask" thoroughly analyzes his own weakness and morbid imagination, while confessing his decadent romantic aesthetics, and depicts the source of romanticism in Yukio Mishima's heart. - Henry Scott (British journalist)

If "No Longer Human" is Dazai Osamu's cautious dying proposal to humanity, then "Confessions of a Mask" is Mishima Yukio's "suicide note" leaving his former self in the "realm of death", and is proof of his efforts to move towards the "realm of life".

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Mishima Yukio

1925-1970

Japanese writer, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature many times.

In 1949, he published the novel "Confessions of a Mask", which received great acclaim;

In 1954, he published "The Waves of Time", which won the 1st Shinchosha Literature Award and was selected as a junior high school language textbook designated by the Japanese Ministry of Education.

"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" was published in 1956 and won the 8th Yomiuri Literary Prize.