Mishima - by John Nathan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published: Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1974.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for <i>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea</i>. In 1970 he startled the world by stepping out onto a balcony in Tokyo before an assembly of troops and plunging a sword into his abdomen; a disciple then beheaded him, completing the ritual of hara-kiri. John Nathan's riveting biography traces the life of this tortured, nearly superhuman personality. Mishima survived a grotesque childhood, and subsequently his sadomasochistic impulses became manifest -- as did an increasing obsession with death as the supreme beauty. Nathan, who knew Mishima professionally and personally, interviewed family, colleagues, and friends to unmask the various -- often seemingly contradictory -- personae of the genius who felt called by a glittering destiny no ordinary man would be permitted.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John Nathan</b>, the Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has translated the novels of both Yukio Mishima and the Nobel laureate Kenzaburo OëHe also published <i>Sony</i>, a portrait of the giant Japanese corporation.
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