A review by tej_reads
Masks by Fumiko Enchi

3.75

My first Libby read, I can’t believe that it took me this long to head back to my local library to borrow books.

Just as there is an archetype of woman as the object of man’s eternal love, so there must be an archetype of her as the object of his eternal fear, representing, perhaps, the shadow of his own evil actions.

… remaining years of her life seemed destined to pass in the glow of a fine, pale light like the long evening hours of early summer - until into that wan and solitary twilight, disrupting it’s tranquility.

Masks was such a strange read, it was unnerving and super creepy. Absolutely no one here had any morals. I liked the writing, the history and the analysis of the Tale of Genji.