![]() There are shades of de Sade here, of Oscar Wilde, Huysmans, and Proust. Drawn by the lonely, the unique, the hero reaches maturity, and despite the mask of normalcy he wears, and his unerotic attachment to a young woman, he is in every sense, the partisan deviant, totally absorbed by his own peculiarity. ![]() ![]() Step by step, the hero retraces his evolution as a homosexual - his first sensual gratification at his mother's breast, his morbid preoccupation with the bloody death of the beautiful young heroes of children's fiction, his painful attachment to a virile young school friend. ![]() This anatomy of homosexuality is more revealing as a commentary on the literary climate of modern Japan, than as fictional depiction of a man's emotional development. ![]()
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