Confesiones de una máscara

Koo-chan, the young narrator of "Confessions of a Mask", is a soul tormented by a disturbing sensitivity that grows with the stigma of knowing that he is different from others. Looking weak and sickly, lonely and taciturn, less favored than his peers, he will discover his homosexual inclinations when he is attracted to Omi, a boy with a strong constitution. But in Japan in the thirties and forties, the protagonist must hide behind a mask of correction, turning his life into a stage, into a representation in which reality meets appearances. First translated from Japanese, this controversial novel was Yukio Mishima's first major literary success and the one that catapulted him to fame.