Something about Yukio Mishima

Mishima’s literary style, as he used simple words and relatively short sentences, is blatantly honest. In the first few chapters of Confessions of a mask, he exposed his sexual desires towards men, his fascination about death since childhood, and his own shame to the readers in a calm but painfully honest way, although here painful …

Something about Confessions of a Mask

The Theme of Confessions of a Mask “But this does not mean that my emotional life was set to rights by my intellectual understanding of these scientific theories. It was difficult for inversion to become an actuality in my case simply because in me the impulse went no further than sexuality, went no further than …

Something about The Picture of Dorian Gray

Something I wrote about The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. “It is said that passion makes one think in a circle. Certainly with hideous iteration the bitten lips of Dorian Gray shaped and reshaped those subtle words that dealt with soul and sense, till he had found in them the full expression, as …