Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 07/09/2017
ISBN: 9780241301197
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
Weight: 134g
RRP: £8.99
'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'
A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed and maimed. But, in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan there is no place for such transgressive desires. He must wear a false mask and hide his true nature, whatever the cost.
'A terrific and astringent work of beauty' The Times Literary Supplement
'Mishima is lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair' Christopher Isherwood
'Never has a "confession" been freer from self-pity' Sunday Times
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 07/09/2017
ISBN: 9780241301197
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
Weight: 134g
RRP: £8.99
Mishima is lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair
Never has a "confession" been freer from self-pity and emotional over-indulgence
A writer of immense energy and ability
A terrific and astringent work of beauty... a work of art