New Directions, 1958. 125 p. ISBN: 9780811201186.
Translator: Meredith Weatherby.
Confessions of a Mask is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.