The book is written in the third person, with a narrator narrating his life. The author says that you are often pretty close to the age of the character. But as it is, it always just like somebody communicating what is happening.
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.