Mishima: A Vision of the Void
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
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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