Mishima: A Vision of the Void
On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his...
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On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, and his carefully premeditated death.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226965321 (0226965325)
Publish date: September 1st 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
"Inevitably, an uneasy balance is established between our interest in the man and our interest in his books. Gone are the days when we could enjoy Hamlet and not interest ourselves in Shakespeare: vulgar curiosity about biographical anecdotes is a characteristic of our time, increased tenfold by the...
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