Works

Confessions of a Mask

Also Known As Kamen no Kokuhaku

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Literature Atlas. "Confessions of a Mask." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/confessions-of-a-mask.

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Literature Atlas. (n.d.). Confessions of a Mask. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/confessions-of-a-mask

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@misc{literatureatlas-confessions-of-a-mask,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {Confessions of a Mask},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/confessions-of-a-mask},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Confessions of a Mask is the second novel by Japanese author Yukio Mishima, first published on 5 July 1949 by Kawade Shobo, a work that launched him to national fame while he was still in his early twenties. Written in the first-person narrative mode and divided into four long chapters, some have posited that Mishima's similarities to the novel's main character come from the character acting as a stand-in for Mishima's own autobiographical story; the book's epigraph is a lengthy quote from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and it was translated into English by Meredith Weatherby for New Directions in 1958.

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Composed, From (Year)

from 1949 1

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