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Mishima :

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Mishima :

[Book]

a biography /

by John Nathan.

1st Da Capo Press ed.

[Cambridge, MA] :

Da Capo Press,

2000.

xxiv, 300 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :

illustrations ;

21 cm

"With a new preface by the author"--Cover.

Includes index.

Originally published: Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, 1974.

"The major plays and novels of Yukio Mishima": pages 283-286.

1925-1937 -- 1937-1945 -- 1946-1949 -- 1950-1956 -- 1957-1959 -- 1960-1966 -- 1967-1969 -- 1970 -- The major plays and novels.

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At age 45, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for his plays and novels. In 1970 he started 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 personae of the genius who felt called by "a glittering destiny no ordinary man would be permitted."--Publisher's description.

Mishima.

Mishima, Yukio,1925-1970.

Mishima, Yukio,1925-1970

Authors, Japanese-- 20th century, Biography.

Authors, Japanese.

Nathan, John,1940-

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