Star by Yukio Mishima, translated by Sam Bett [in Booklist]
09 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers
Revered writer of dozens of novels, plays, short stories, and essays, Yukio Mishima was an iconic master of the performative existence. A literary sensation by 24 for Confessions of a Mask (1949), a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman about a young homosexual’s hidden identity, fame would be Mishima’s...