Sun and Steel

by Yukio Mishima

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them.

At one level, it may be read as an account of how a puny, bookish boy discovered the importance of his own physical being; the "sun and steel" of the title are themselves symbols respectively...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 7728296086
• ISBN13: 9787728296083
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Lyle Stuart
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"