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	Reflections on Torturers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Confessions of torturers therefore contribute to writing an authoritative and truthful version of the violence committed by the authoritarian regime.
		The etymology of the terms "confess" and "confession" hint at the problematic role of torturers’ confessions in truth and reconciliation.
		Astiz’s confession could also be viewed as constituting part of a "spiral of denial." Such a spiral begins with outright denial: torture did not happen.
	www.polisci.wisc.edu /~lpayne/Leighpaper.htm (8131 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Japanese Literature
		Confessions of a Mask recounts the young male protagonist's growing awareness of homosexual feelings pivoting around certain intense sadomasochistic images that are inspired by, for example, the sight of the dirty naked legs of a night-soil man or a painting by Italian artist Guido Reni of St. Sebastian writhing in agony.
		Mishima is said to have boasted that Confessions of a Mask was the first important Japanese homosexual narrative since Saikaku's The Great Mirror of Male Love, but a major difference exists between Mishima and the tradition he admired: Mishima wrote in an environment in which homosexuality was stigmatized.
		The title Confessions of a Mask can be understood as an attempt to speak through the stigma ("mask") about the truth ("confession") of homosexual feelings.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/japan_lit,5.html (772 words)

	Confessions Mask Essays - The Self-hatred of Kochan in Confessions of a Mask
		Confessions Mask Essays - The Self-hatred of Kochan in Confessions of a Mask
		In his semi-autobiographical novel, Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima examines the struggle for acceptance by a man living outside of the socially accepted norms.
		A motif that strongly pervades this novel is death and the images of blood associated with it.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Confessions of a Mask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Reading other reviews of Confessions of a Mask, I see that many readers are looking at it from a perspective of "gay literature" and seem disappointed that Mishima is not really a supporter of the cause.
		No study of modern Japanese literature would be complete without a look at Mishima, and although Confessions of a Mask may not be his greatest work, it is unquestionably an excellent starting point.
		Confessions of a Mask ends disappointingly but the earlier section of the book gives a candid, moving, and memorable account of a child's confused and troubled emerging sexuality.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/081120118X (1427 words)

	Next CONFESSIONS (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	js-catalog.cpl.org /MARION/%2BCONFESSIONS/5358a0005100 (159 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Mishima, Yukio
		In correlation to this emphasis in Confessions, a couple of months before his coup d'état, Mishima had his photograph taken posing as Saint Sebastian, bound to a tree and pierced by arrows--a harbinger of his seppuku, or martyrdom.
		As its title suggests, Confessions of a Mask is narrated by the protagonist wearing a "mask," or conversely, by the mask wearing a human face--a mask without a face behind it.
		The reader is put in an ambivalent position: whether to take this confession as a lie or fiction by a masked person, or as an autobiography craftily disguised as fiction by the use of the "mask," or as truth inseparably intertwined with imagination.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/mishima_y,2.html (753 words)

	Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook) Review: I waded carefully into this book, not knowing what the writing would be like.
		Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook) Review: Reading other reviews of Confessions of a Mask, I see that many readers are looking at it from a perspective of "gay literature" and seem disappointed that Mishima is not really a supporter of the cause.
		Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook) Review: Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask takes the 20th position among 100 Gay Literature fiction.
	www.textkit.com /0_081120118X.html (1123 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Confessions of a Mask (Peter Owen Modern Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Confessions of a Mask is an autobiographical novel recounting Mishima's childhood upto about the age of twenty-five.
		From then on there is a divide between his private life, and his life in public, at school, with family.
		On his own he dreams of Saint Sebastian, his heroism and his martydom, yet with his friends he wears a mask, pretending an obsession for women.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0720610311 (634 words)

	What He Had to Hide
		Kochan, the narrator of "Confessions of a Mask," is lost for another reason.
		He is a homosexual who is determined to conceal his true nature from the world, and the story that he tells is an almost clinical account of congenital sexual inversion.
		In "Confessions of a Mask" a literary artist of delicate sensibility and startling candor, has chosen to write for the few rather than the many.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/10/25/specials/mishima-mask.html (428 words)

	Observer \| Torture now routine for Putin's police
		Once the policeman's gas mask was sealed tight around his face, Denis, 18, lasted 90 seconds before passing out.
		After a heavy beating by police fists and batons, Denis had still not confessed to stealing a car radio from a garage near his home.
		So two officers handcuffed his hands behind his back and clamped the 'elephant mask', as it is called, to his bruised head.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4777783-102275,00.html (739 words)

	Mishima Yukio
		The next novel I read, Confessions of a Mask, was the first one he wrote, the book that established his reputation in Japan in the late 40's (when he was in his early 20's).
		It was a state of being which the later Mishima rejected in a way that is very appealing to me, by going back into his own tradition for a nobler identity--by deciding in his middle years to be the hero he knew he was not when he was twenty-three.
		It is no more overtly homosexual than Confessions of a Mask, but its author's conception of himself has changed from passive to active, from essentially female to essentially male, and given him a mask he is more comfortable and confident to wear.
	www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/Mishima.html (2225 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey 1951-1989 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I may not be any closer to understanding this after reading "Confessions", but I do know that the need to express oneself this way is shared by many.
		Here is a very rare opportunity to see into the mind of (at least near) genius - a graphic picture of a life, captured from young adulthood to until Abbey's death at the age of 62.
		In "Confessions of a Barbarian", this loss of dreams is finally overshadowed by the loss of the dreamer himself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316004162?v=glance (1778 words)

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		Rousseau's "Confessions" are completely opposite of "Phaedra." Rousseau practically pours out his heart in the manuscript, introducing the reader to family members, and some of his deepest thoughts.
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		Mishima's first novel, the partly autobiographical Confessions of a Mask (1948), was widely acclaimed and successful enough to enable its author to become a full-time writer.
		The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956) portrays a young man obsessed with both religion and beauty; The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) is a tale of adolescent jealousy.
		In Confessions of a Mask, Mishima recalls that he experienced his first ejaculation upon observing a reproduction of Guido Reni’s (1575-1642) painting of Saint Sebastian.
	www.geocities.com /countermedia/9.html (1433 words)

	The Stutter of EternityA Study of the Themes of Isolation And Meaninglessness in Three Novels By Yukio Mishima - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Confessions of a Mask, two things key us to the meaning of the novel: point of view and water imagery.
		Confessions takes the form of an 'I-novel' though it is, in fact, not one.
		The nameless narrator of Confessions of a Mask is a homosexual, but he is not an active one.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=95257004 (389 words)

	New Pony -- Page 1 -- The Saturnine Detractor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The golden eyes of this occult beast fastened too intently upon me, as though to bewitch me, and the procession passing before my eyes aroused in me a joy akin to terror.
		…the intimate confessions of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
		Getting back to the magazine story, which, at best, it is going to be sort of scattershot and at worst is going to completely lack a narrative arc or resolution.
	www.detractor.org /content/v02i02/newpony1.html (694 words)

	Biblio: Confessions of a Mask by Mishima, Yukio: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Biblio: Confessions of a Mask by Mishima, Yukio: Details
		Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in a polite, post-war Japan.
		To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/24005906.html (288 words)

	mask
		Still, - and here I am at great pain and confusion I suppose, to have to admit it – the more the players on Life’s Stage moved forward and entered new eras, the more successful it seemed, they became at hiding their emotions.
		This is the face of Kathryn Janeway, and I, her mask.
		They even lowered their masks, thereby removing all barriers between them.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Crater/6253/mask.htm (2326 words)

	Confessions of a Mask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	Mishima, Yukio, Kamen no kokuhaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The importance of this novel is the mode of confession rather than the content of it.
		As the title, "Confessions of a Mask," suggests, this is a novel of paradox, and Mishima recognizes this paradoxical identity throughout the novel.
		His identity becomes quite paradoxical, when he sees that his homosexuality is only an inverted sign of his heterosexuality, his narcissism is that of deep self-hatred, and his strong love of death and blood is that of his fear of death.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/k/x/kxs334/academic/fiction/mishima_kamen.html (555 words)

	Maud Newton: Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mishima described in detail his efforts to become a novelist, his relations with another famous novelist, Osamu Dazai, and his reunion with a woman believed to be the model of Sonoko, a woman in his masterpiece, "Kamen-no-Kokuhaku (Confession[s] of a Mask)."....
		Mishima’s works were believed to have been completely fictional, but the diary suggests that he drew material from what he actually experienced," [an expert] said.
		In Confessions of a Mask, the protagonist realizes that he must mask his sexual desires for other men if he wants to be accepted in Japanese society.
	maudnewton.com /blog/index.php?p=4976 (238 words)

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		Yes I have.MIASMA,he wrote confessions of a mask.
		Your reply does open up for a very different kind angle on the discussion though, which I don't mind developing at all, for the sake of conversation....
		Yukio MISHIMA did write "Confessions of a mask", but was he a MIASMA ?
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	Buy.com - Confessions of a Mask : Yukio Mishima : ISBN 081120118X
		The prolific writer Yukio Mishima was the author of 40 novels as well as poetry, essays, and modern Kabuki ja Noh drama.
		Born in Tokyo, Mishima worked in a factory during World War II, then studied law at Tokyo University and worked as a civil servant before devoting himself entirely to writing.
		CONFESSIONS OF A MASK (1949), and dealt with his discovery of his own homosexuality; his tetralogy, SEA OF FERTILITY (1965-1970), is regarded by many as his most lasting achievement.
	www.buy.com /prod/Confessions_of_a_Mask/q/loc/106/30169828.html (626 words)

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	marran page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mishima has gained attention not only for his writing, but also for his spectacular suicide: in 1970, Mishima took his own life after taking over the Self-Defense Force army post in Tokyo and performing ritual harakiri (disembowelment).
		One of his earliest works, Confessions of a Mask (1949) is a coming of age story that is also a startlingly frank treatment of homosexual masochism.
		This paper will explore the role of "demonstration," a concept developed by Theodor Reik, and its metaphorical manifestations including performance,staging and ritual, and the necessity of seeing and being seen in the masochistic tableau created by Mishima in Confessions of a Mask and other works.
	www.unc.edu /~bardsley/nation/jones.html (125 words)

	Mishima Yukio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This cheating of impending death, along with Japan's eventual defeat, seems to have engendered in him a complex dialectic between the exultation of survival and the exaltation of death which was to characterize the romantic nihilism of the mature Mishima.
		In 1948 Mishima resigned from the Ministry of Finance to devote himself to writing, and in 1949 he met with critical and popular success when he published the affecting novel Kamen no kokuhaku (Confessions of a Mask).
		The fifties saw the appearance of a long series of important novels, as well as Mishima's turn toward bodybuilding and the cult of the physical.
	www.f.waseda.jp /mjewel/jlit/authors_works/modernlit/mishima_yukio.html (613 words)

	NYPL, Lawrence Mass Papers, 1966-1995
		A co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, he was the first writer to cover the AIDS epidemic, and the first physician to write regularly for the gay press.
		In addition to numerous articles, reviews, and essays he is the author of Confessions of a Mask, based on the confessional memoir of Yukio Mishima, Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution, a collection of interviews with writers, artists, and scientists on many aspects of homosexuality, and the autobiographical work Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite.
		There is a typescript of his unproduced screenplay, Confessions of a Mask, about author Yukio Mishima.
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/mass.html (2160 words)

	NetForum - Message Replies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He is "[roused] to action" by his fictions, a literary "pun and Stan Green." But as soon as Helen appears, his real-life mystery disappears and he rather sadly and dramatically concludes, "Alas, alack, I am not Stan Green." There goes his fun.
		So, off he escapes to, of all things, the fictional genius that is Mishima's Confessions of a Mask.
		Rocognizing those masks, we can perhaps see through to truths in the story and about the narrator.
	athena.english.vt.edu /cgi-bin/netforum/omodsum99/a/8--9.4.0.1 (675 words)

	Confessions of a Mask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		YUKIO MISHIMA was born in Tokyo in 1925 and was educated at the Peer’s School, where he received a special commendation from the Emperor of Japan.
		His international reputation as a leading Japanese writer was firmly established by the English publication in 1960 of Confessions of a Mask, considered to be one of the most important novels to have emerged from Japan since the war.
		In 1970 Mishima publicly committed seppuku, ritual suicide by disembowellment, in an ultimate gesture towards fulfilling his own fantasy of death.
	www.peterowen.com /pages/modclas/con.mask.htm (179 words)

	Greek Hero and Japanese Samurai: Mishima's New Aesthetic - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yet the actor who spoke anonymously in Confessions of a Mask, (Kamen no KoKuhaku, 1949/50) has at last stripped himself to a loincloth and spoken in his own voice.
		Although one would not ordinarily expect an Introduction to a volume of body-building photos to provide a gloss to a novelist's work, Mishima's commentary does in fact make explicit attitudes and themes implicit in all that he has written.
		These are, moreover, reinforced by imagery and symbol, while symoblic Temple of the Golden Pavilion gestures are revealed as identical with those of the Mask and of The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=95257026 (302 words)

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