Ep 536 - Confessions of a Mask, by Yukio Mishima

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Tell me about a Complicated Man. Mishima's breakthrough coming-of-age novel about sexuality in late Imperial Japan has a powerful narrative voice and prose style. But the legacy of his work and his political goals has led to him being a bit of an "enigma" (as one listener referred to him) -- to put it lightly.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.2	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.5	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.3	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:42.4	Hey everybody welcome to Overdoot's podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:46.3	My name is Craig.
0:47.3	My name is Andrew.
0:51.6	They can't see your shrug on the micro.
0:54.0	We haven't upgraded our microphones in a while so it's not picking up the shrug.
0:57.7	Oh okay.
0:58.7	It wasn't.
0:59.7	Can you turn up your gain a little bit?
1:00.9	Let me try it again.
1:01.9	Let me try it again.
1:02.9	I'm going to try and like put my hands up in the air real fast and see if you can hear
1:07.0	the air moves.
1:08.0	Okay.
1:09.0	Yep.
1:10.0	Yeah.
1:11.0	I heard it at that time.
1:12.0	Maybe you heard my chair squeak.
1:14.1	This is a podcast about books.
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