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Bekentenissen van een gemaskerde

Yukio Mishima

3.87 AVERAGE

ana_banana97's review against another edition

3.0

3'5

gishiroma's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mutdmour's review against another edition

3.0

There's times when I empathized with the narrator. There's times when I wanted to slap him. There's times when I could hear myself in his own thoughts, something about that quality of keeping up pretense that I understand. Often though, he lost me in his own introspection. HIs affectation of love, his insistence that there is hope for 'normalcy', his self-blinding attitude towards his sexuality, the self-destructive cycles of thought, and that inner sense of falsehood echoed enough of my own feelings and experience, that I will have to hand it to Mishma.

thebookishgatsby's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

zalopunk's review against another edition

5.0

Me cuesta darle 5 estrellas pero siento que se lo merece. Es difícil no odiar al narrador, a la vez que se le siente empatía. El personaje está tan bien construido que ver la historia del autor es casí una tragedia griega. La ruptura entre la sexualidad y la caida de japón que se esconde bajo la alfombra se narran demasiado bien. Una piedra importante en la literatura japonesa.

ami0123's review against another edition

3.0

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

beachlifeindeath11's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

the inability to embrace who you truly are. i find this problem so tragic. the main character lies to others in order to convince himself that he‘s "normal". but the human brain cannot shut down human feelings.

beautifully written. the book has lots of fascinating thoughts and ideas. however, some of the scenes where mishima writes about main character‘s "fantasies" are too graphic. but maybe it makes the book more honest and realistic….?
i also would like to highlight the story of st. sebastian. wonderful reference.

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