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Bekenntnisse einer Maske by Yukio Mishima

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sunn_bleach's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Everything that Camus’s “The Stranger” tried to be and surpassing it in every way through metaphor, history, and metatext. This is a story of alienation in the classical sense of the word; being so struck from your self and not only forming a mask but writing as if the mask didn’t exist while still alluding to it at every great step. Mishima’s own history just makes it that much more impactful.

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sleepyriv's review against another edition

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challenging reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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nimbos's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book gathers everything I enjoy in a good read: an unreliable, morally ambiguous narrator, dark and twisted desires and religious imagery. Besides all that, it was a book that spoke so realistically about the struggles of a homosexual youth, that posed so many questions and that made me feel all the less alone in my own struggle. I found myself, as uncanny as this may sound, relating to the main character in many aspects of my journey of self-discovery.

It's medium paced and easy to read once you grasp the writing style. It is a very visual book, making up vivid pictures without becoming overly descriptive and these pictures are always filled with light, even in the most gorish descriptions, in contrast to the dire themes of the book. It is obsessive, intoxicating and erotic without ever being vulgar. It felt, overall, very sophisticated.

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