Yukio Mishima . Confession Mask BOOK ; CULTURE AND ART Author: Yukio Mishima Title: Confession Mask Publisher: ABC Classic Year: 2007 Format: RTF Size: 1 Mb. The novel of the famous Japanese writer Yukio Mishima (1925 - 1970) "The Confession of a Mask" glorified the twenty-four-year-old author and brought him world fame. The key theme of this famous work is the theme of death, in which the hero of the narrative sees the "true purpose of life". The plot of "The Confessions of a Mask" turned out to be prophetic: at the age of 45, Mishima, a brilliant writer, playwright, theater and film director, one of the brightest representatives of the post-war generation, committed suicide by committing harakiri. "The Confession of a Mask" is certainly an extraordinary, bright spot in the literature, which at first is alarming and even frightening, but it is impossible not to agree that the virtuoso manner of writing Mishima is unique. The heroes of the book are like undiscovered flower buds that bloom to the climax of the plot, gradually showing their true external as well as internal state. The author touches on the topic of the formation and comprehension of personality, fatal love, the search for one’s own self. Intimate revelations of man about his disharmony with the outside world and the environment as a whole . His findings and losses, the struggle of feelings and reason, courage and timidity, destruction and creation . On the mistakes of the hero Mishima you need to learn, taking into account every nuance, even the most trifling. The writer zealously proves the fact that the victory over our own complexes, phobias must be carried out as a teenager, for having come to full maturity we will become prisoners of our own fears, torturers of our mental balance, and will never be able to change ourselves and the world around us. Confessions of a Mask 68