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by Marguerite Yourcenar
translated by Alberto Manguel
University of Chicago Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-226-96532-1
Library of Congress Classification PL833.I7Z98713 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 895.635

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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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