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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I am reading the Japanese classic Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima. Mishima, who was a finalist for the Nobel Prize in 1963, is most famous for his ritualistic suicide in 1970. Confessions of a mask, published in 1949, is the first person story of a man coming to terms with the fact that he is homosexual and his narrative of his life-long masking thereof. |
It took me nearly a week to finish this little guy. It was pretty heavy and more than a little depressing. It is hard to read gay narratives where the speaker feels so much self-loathing and helplessness.
Moving on to the 2015 revised and updated version of
Betrayal: Crisis in the Catholic Church. The original printing of the book in 2002 inspired the making of the film
Spotlight, which was excellent.