Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima

BUY HERE
amzn.to/2miYaLm
HELP KEEP THE SHOW GOING!
/ booksarebetterthanfood
You can find me here as well:
/ booksarebetterthanfood
/ bksbtrthnfood
/ betterthanfood
If you'd like to hire me to critique your work/provide an opinion/help in some form, please get in touch to negotiate at:
[e-mail]
Please send any fan mail (or BOOKS!) to:
PO Box 1572
St. Petersburg FL
33731

[@Antastesia]

One of my favorite books of all time. It's truly one of a kind.

[@healer007]

MINE TOO..

[@mishababernathy7165]

“I respect Mishima. He had sensitivity in his work and it fitted in with his life. His work is absolutely beautiful! Full of kindness and beautiful music. And he built up his body - he had a really strong physique. He was tremendously sensitive...”-Richey Edwards

[@sachimcavalli]

Tati Feltrin brought me here 🖤

[@andersonbucho]

Me too!!!

[@whelleyP]

Same!

[@sts7578]

Great review. Mishima is my personal favorite artist in any medium. No other writer truly lived by every principal they expressed as stridently as he did. After coming to a full understanding and appreciation of his work and his life, I realized that all creative expression after his death stands firmly in the shadow of what he did and the daunting reality of what his life represented, whether anyone is aware of it or not.

[@MyPersonalDrugs]

OMG, finally a booktuber with non-YA reviews.

[@woodman2855]

Covers YA?

[@tonybologna1918]

YA = Young Adult

[@woodman2855]

oh I see my bad

[@jonrichards3626]

YA-refuge of morons.

[@melc-f7983]

I read Confessions of a Mask last year for a humanities class and it became one of my all time favorites. One of my best friends was in the same class and we still discuss it on a regular basis. Great book.

[@darkslippery1996]

Mishima's punk rock. Probably your best review to date. Cheers, man.

[@MyrmidonGaming]

Thanks for this, CLS. Been trying to read more outside of my comfort zone of just English and French authors. Currently working through Murakami and with this you've totally sold me on Mishima. Can't wait to check this one out.

[@DenerBLopes]

Conheci o canal através da Tati Feltrin e estou apaixonado, desde o vídeo sobre Machado. ♥️

[@Kokirikid101]

One of my favorite authors. I started with this novel and went alone chronologically. Definitely one of the best modernist authors and my favorite (next to Soseki and Abe) out of Japan.

[@lucasgdrezes]

I love this book and I loved this review. Mishima portrays wonderfully how it feels to be in the closet, to pretend to be someone else, to try to change you innermost nature. All painfully.

[@johndawson3216]

Wow how refreshing of a KZbin channel . I subscribed as soon I stumbled . Looking forward to hear more from you

[@charmicarmicat2981]

Just checked this out from the library only 15 pages in and I’m enthralled

[@roryalexanderm]

One of the best! The biography on Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes is very good .

[@benher6934]

The Odor scene lyric part fucked up my meal.

[@hugosimao2985]

This review is awesome keep it up! (next to the book chemist this is truly one of the best in the so called "booktube") Any fan of this book would probably also enjoy Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human released in 48 Just before the author comitted suicide and is still one of the most popular japanese novels. It is also semi-autobiografic and follows Yozo a man who feels disqualified from being a human and the absolute tragedy that is his life as he struggles to fit in the japanese society.

[@Ardavan47]

Right on time Just as i bought the book today!

[@jontyreading1483]

Brilliant review, I read this a few years ago when I was 14 or so (off the back of a pewdiepie review 😅) Mishima is by far the most thought provoking novelist I’ve ever read.

[@ManletKingofTism]

Started reading it,so good. Thanks for the review

[@chanjiachi]

Will check out this book, thanks for the review.

[@TheDndemon]

Just bought this book, thanks for the review!

[@Aester]

This guy is the reason why I started working out 2 years ago. Really fascinating guy.

[@rubico1894]

Mishima was an artist's artist.

[@williamrobinson6059]

I keep coming back this review in order to convince myself to pick up this book and read it. Almost there!

[@orgnasmic]

hope you read it, it’s such an amazing book!

[@trash-3058]

Wow This is making me want to read the book more and more I'm reading this because rm from bts recommend it but since I got it I haven't had to motivation to read it and this was really the push I needed to read it Thank you!

[@merton6639]

Yukio Mishima is one of my favorite authors (as people can probably tell by my nom d'cyber), and I was glad to see this vid in my notifications. If you are going to do another Mishima work, I would love to see a review of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, which I believe is his best work.

[@edwardde5618]

when I wasn't reading it I was thinking about it and when I was reading it I was hypnotised! brilliant- and esteticly flawless!

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Hell yeah!

[@Anillusionthatisreal]

You should review some book of Yasunari Kawabata, his mentor and master.

[@whatup7214]

and amy hempel, brilliant short story writer

[@ametora1231]

That would be an interesting video: your top 5 favorite authors/writers of all time

[@nietzschean3138]

Describing Mishima as gay is extremely simplistic. Other than that, awesome video. Awesome channel.

[@grantjohnson697]

I literally just finished this book.

[@mishababernathy7165]

Damn!!! This is one of my favs.... I also love "Forbidden colors"... but the translation is incomplete so I had to read it in Spanish...

[@kawa_bata]

On my list for a long time already ! I love the Sea of fertility series, but havent read this one. I will definitely now, thanks. Do you have a Goodreads account?

[@thatturkey1]

Konstan Tin He does have a Goodreads!

[@lareinathelassa]

Wow. You sold him well!

[@Paula-ev2gw]

Tati Feltrin followers say hellooo. But I was already following you haha

[@Slappybag46]

Are you still taking book suggestions? I'd love to hear what you have to say about The Wind in the Willows.

[@viral0998hj]

First 4 seconds and I'm sold

[@Gleiber8]

Tati Feltrin send us here.. hi !

[@martinkirsch5969]

Great review. Talking about Mishima and briefly referencing Huysmans in the same video... awesome! I love Mishima. Have you read all of "The Sea of Fertility"? And "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion"? For me The Sea of Fertility is his masterpiece, it has everything (philosophy, politics, spirituality, mortality, history, etc.). By the way, as soon as I have some time I'll willingly make French subtitles for you videos if necessary. I'm writing a dissertation on mythology in cinema at the moment (something I'd love to expand into a book someday), while working and studying, so I lack time and energy for other things, but I'll let you know as soon as I can help. If ever you come to France, come to Dijon and say hello! Have a nice day or evening.

[@marioriospinot]

Nice.

[@culloden23]

The movie about him is phenomenal. Check it out

[@UnconsciousQualms]

this guy, the writer, seems like a total nutcase to me, but again some of the greatest novels of the 20th century were written by fanatics

[@Saephaan]

Does someone has the pages from the quotes on the video?

[@r.m.2598]

You should talk about that Mishima movie wich Paul Schrader directed in your movie channel.

[@user-fq4zz2kc3b]

singularity i feel you

[@lousoares2847]

Does anyone know where I can read it for free? :(

[@whatup7214]

'stick out your tongue' by ma jian is an interesting book.

[@alexanderschmidt8520]

Great book! Read it only 3 months ago and loved it. Two questions: Is this the only book or novel in which Mishima writes about (his) homosexuality? And: Is the Paul Schrader biopic worth watching?

[@rampid7625]

what I consider his best work ( forbidden colors) could also be seen as slightly autobiographical as the main charcter is a bitter, misogynist old author who uses a beautiful young gay man to get back at past lovers and the female race as whole. Lots of descriptions of gay cafes and parks and greatly written charters, very amazing.

[@janegarner9169]

Alexander Schmidt Yes, the Schrader film, "Mishima", is worth watching. So is Mishima's film.

[@vrixphillips]

Honestly, one of the few right-wingers/fascists I've ever really admired. Such a talented writer and, like Proust, queer as a 3 pound note. Love it~

[@vrixphillips]

*GASP* Super surprised you didn't name-drop the fantastic[ly odd] film Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters, which is actually how I found out about him, through the soundtrack by Philip Glass. One of the best movies in the Criterion Collection, in my opinion. That and Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, as far as almost magical realist movies go. In case you've yet to see it, it covers the day of his death, Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Runaway Horses, Kyoko's House [as yet untranslated], and Confessions of a Mask all intertwined to highlight his obsession with death and beauty. It was lifechanging for a young, gay, morbid kid like me (though I've less of a taste for romanticized suicide these days. Thankfully the depression is at low tide in comparison to my adolescence lol)

[@beefy4811]

recommendation by RM :< ♥

[@wishbone7410]

i want to translate Mishima's works into English in my OWN hand, someday near future i don't know exactly when. who translated into those English???

[@marcelhidalgo1076]

Why do we underline the same quotes!!! This is second time I caught that.

[@TheMrpiggy6666]

along with Forbidden Pleasures these are his two best books..but better than Soseki, Tanizaki, Nagai Kafu The River Sumida), Shiga Naoya, Akutagawa Ryunosoke (Hell Screen), Ibuse Masuji, Dazai Osamu, Hagiwara Sakutaro, Toson..really?..ah well to each his own for me he inhabits a similar territory to Yasunari Kawabata though Mishima tends to lean towards the sensational...love the passionate defence though.

[@enividal9111]

Cadê legenda português??

[@n8vscience842]

Can I ask what is your fixation with violence? I listened to your review of American Psycho. Why the admiration for "glorious suicide"....why do you worship violence?

[@fresatx]

Mishima is the best.... If you don't die for your art... You aren't an artist!

[@cintiag.4036]

👏👏👏👏

[@DanielSmith-mw8xx]

bro you should do "autobiography of red" by anne carson

[@resfeber3478]

Hope one day I will watch you reviewing Infinite Jest!

[@nathanielmilner6401]

Mr. Sergeant, I am shocked you've dodged Tropic of Cancer, or any Miller novel, for so long..

[@richiemontero3880]

Could you do Ride the Tiger by Julius Evola?

[@mymom1462]

Martin Sellner didn’t expect you to be a /lit/izen

[@kugelscheier5035]

@Martin Sellner Most ambitous Crossover

[@lukereilly9844]

He'd probably be horrified that gaijin degenerates love this book so much, but I and a few of my friends have said it's the most accurate novel as far as growing up as a homosexual. I've never found another book that nails it so well.

[@thomasbarber7739]

"Almost fetishist"? The writer's suicide is actually telling of the catastrophic roots of his materialistic absorption in ego.

[@spacehootle309]

Well, Mishima had umm... issues. Great writer though.

[@charlesmento5968]

He is sad and his idea of love is not love. He's really taken over by the negative and lived an awful life and in awful thoughts. Sad.

[@manuelcorderoiniesta5463]

I love Yukio Mishima, I love Confessions of a Mask, and I love your reviews. God, my pants are so wet right now.

[@sefora805]

I loved Mishima. But I have always looked at his suicide as an attempt to maintain purity of his soul in a corrupt world. All of us living behind masks we get it.

[@MsCalcat]

"Sexual preference" is not a real thing. One does not prefer to be heterosexual or homosexual, or bisexual, one just IS. It's hard to believe that Mishima or anyone else would prefer a sexual orientation that runs in opposition to society's "norms", preferring prejudice and non-acceptance. To use words, like "preference" or "lifestyle" referring to someone's sexual orientation is simply inaccurate. When did you decide you preferred your sexual orientation? Will it change when you prefer something else?

[@quinndeejee9564]

If he used lifestyle then ya I get that, bc it just is like you said, but I think in this case he may just be using "sexual preference" colloquially, it's a common term if outdated yes. I doubt he means to say that

[@Diogenesthegreat]

My fist try reading Mishima. Great book but It didn’t resonate with me. I only made it to chapter 3 (about 100 pages) I didn’t want to continue because there’s too many good books out there to be reading LGBTQ literature. I am interested in reading more of Mishima And I will give it a try to The sound of the waves and The Sailor… For now I am Moving on to Catch-22 by Joseph H.

[@danieltinoco8466]

In japan Mishima was a taboo subject. Japanese people didnt feel comfortable with his brand of right wing fanaticism. Japanese intellectuals didnt understand him and rather than discuss him prefered instead to put the strange scandal of Mishima behind them and forget about him. This was 1970 so Mishima's idea of going back to worshiping the Emperor like a god again wasnt a popular idea. Still isnt.

[@user-kr7id5rp6j]

みしまの仮面の告白、わたしも　だいすきです。 そして　禁色　も。 禁色についても話してください(^▽^)/

[@nozecone]

He did not "stage a coup d'etat" - he attempted a coup d'etat. (This is a literary site, so let's get these things right.)

[@thrillofbattle3801]

#Perversion

[@liamashbrook3093]

just to mention like,,,, Mishima was also an imperialist and a fascist

[@fresatx]

Oh God...they filled your head with garbage in college, and you never guestioned any of it for a second, did you? Mishima wrote and lived in a space far outside of your pedantic and nauseating race, gender, class bullshit. Imperialism and Fascism... You say those like they are bad things all the time. Maybe Mishma had other ideas than what you have been silver spoon fed. Don't read any Henry Miller, either, he's a sexist. Just read what ever PC garbage you're told to.. Poety about a runaway slave.. Or some Toni Morrison bullshit like the Bluest Eye. You can't handle Mishima.

[@dn8601]

Ok, and? I am very far away from what Mishima was politically (I'm a commie) but... Can't you admire something even if you don't completely agree with it? Mishima was an extremely interesting, passionate and skillful man.

[@user-yu3ge4iv8r]

@@fresatx You're right, but stop phrasing it like a sperg. Trump lost, torilla tavataan!

[@fresatx]

@@user-yu3ge4iv8r Dude.. Ive just had enough of these liberal arts zombies. People that could reduce a man playing frisbee with his dog to some sort of patriarchal oppression. They are a blight on humanity. Aint spergin'

[@lakiog1938]

and

[@Not_So_Slim_Shady]

Why are people acting like him being a crazy right winger is some kind of cute aesthetic. I was looking forward to reading this but I can't respect the work or thought of a person like that.