Confessions of a Mask

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Confessions of a Mask

First edition (Japanese)
Author	Yukio Mishima
Original title	Kamen no Kokuhaku (假面の告白)
Translator	Meredith Weatherby
Language	Japanese
Publisher	Kawade Shobō (Japan) New Directions (US Eng. trans)
Publication date	5 July 1949
Publication place	Japan
Published in English	1958
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	254 p.
ISBN	0-8112-0118-X
OCLC	759934

Confessions of a Mask (仮面の告白, Kamen no Kokuhaku) is the second novel by Japanese author Yukio Mishima. First published on 5 July 1949 by Kawade Shobō,^[1][2] it launched him to national fame though he was only in his early twenties.^[3] Some have posited that Mishima's similarities to the main character of the novel come from the character acting as a stand-in for Mishima's own autobiographical story.

The novel is divided into four long chapters, and is written using the first person narrative mode.

The book's epigraph is a lengthy quote from The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky ("The Penance of a Fervent Heart—Poem" in Part 3, Book 3).

Confessions of a Mask was translated into English by Meredith Weatherby for New Directions in 1958.^[4]