Mishima: A Vision of the Void

By Marguerite Yourcenar

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226965325
• ISBN13: 9780226965321
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"

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