The Life And Death Of Yukio Mishima

Author : Henry Scott Stokes
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461624226

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The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes Pdf

Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one of Mishima's closest friends, was the only non-Japanese allowed to attend the trial of the men involved in Mishima's spectacular suicide. In this insightful and empathetic look at the writer, Stokes guides the reader through the milestones of Mishima's meteoric and eclectic career and delves into the artist's major works and themes. This biography skillfully and compassionately illuminates the achievements and disquieting ideas of a brilliant and deeply troubled man, an artist of whom Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata had said, "A writer of Mishima's caliber comes along only once every two or three hundred years."

Author : Henry Scott Stokes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9780815410744

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The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes Pdf

This incisive biography begins with the spectacularly tragic last day of the militant Japanese novelist, perhaps best known for his monumental four-book masterpiece The Sea of Fertility.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:880006006

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The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Anonim Pdf

Author : Acie Cargill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1081535032

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Yukio Mishima by Acie Cargill Pdf

Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's best writers of the 2oth century, was deeply attracted to the patriotism and martial spirit of Japan's past, which he contrasted unfavourably to the materialistic Westernized people and the prosperous society of Japan in the postwar era. Mishima himself was torn between these differing values. Although he maintained an essentially Western lifestyle in his private life and had a vast knowledge of Western culture, he raged against Japan's imitation of the West. He diligently developed the age-old Japanese arts of karate and kendo. He formed a controversial private army of about 80 students, the Tate no Kai (Shield Society), with the aim of preserving the Japanese martial spirit and theoretically helping to protect the emperor (the symbol of Japanese culture) in case of an uprising by the left or a communist attack.On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four members of his militia entered a military base in central Tokyo, took the commandant hostage, and tried to persuade the soldiers at the base to join them in supporting the emperor and overturning Japan's pacifist Constitution. When this was unsuccessful, Mishima committed suicide by seppuku. It seems that this was his original purpose, a ritual suicide in the samurai tradition. He had written his closing letters and got all his affairs in order before they went on their mission. He left enough money for his assistants to have a legal defense.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228435

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Star by Yukio Mishima Pdf

For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker) All eyes are on Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions. Being a star, constantly performing, being watched and scrutinized as if under a microscope, is often a drag. But so is life. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film “Afraid to Die,” this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there any escape from how we are seen by others?

Author : Naoki Inose
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611720082

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Persona by Naoki Inose Pdf

Traces the life of the Japanese author who went from sickly youth to dedicated student of the martial arts, looking at his family life, the wartime years, and his career as a writer who advocated for traditional values.

Author : John Nathan
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003298481

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Mishima: a Biography by John Nathan Pdf

Finally back in print: The definitive biography of the legendary Japanese writer-legendary as much for his tumultuous life and macabre suicide as for his Nobel-nominated writings.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811201171

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Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima Pdf

Nine short stories by the Japanese literary genius provide insights into the struggles and problems of his contemporary countrymen.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525565154

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Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima Pdf

After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots—even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811213129

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Patriotism by Yukio Mishima Pdf

'Was it death he was now waiting for? Or a wild ecstasy of the senses?' For the young army officer of Yukio Mishima's seminal story, 'Patriotism, ' death and ecstasy become elementally intertwined. With his unique rigor and passion, Mishima hones in on the body as the great tragic stage for all we call social, ritual, political.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178487972X

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The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima Pdf

A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, beautiful, lyrical and deeply ominous. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying. 'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful

Author : Damian Flanagan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780234199

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Yukio Mishima by Damian Flanagan Pdf

The most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century, Yukio Mishima (1925–70) was a prime candidate for the Nobel Prize. But the prolific author shocked the world in 1970 when he attempted a coup d’état that ended in his suicide by ritual disembowelment. In this radically new analysis of Mishima’s extraordinary life, Damian Flanagan deviates from the stereotypical depiction of a right-wing nationalist and aesthete, presenting the author instead as a man in thrall to the modern world while also plagued by hidden neuroses and childhood trauma that pushed him toward his explosive final act. Flanagan argues that Mishima was a man obsessed with the concepts of time and “emperor,” and reveals how these were at the heart of his literature and life. Untangling the distortions in the writer’s memoirs, Flanagan traces the evolution of Mishima’s attempts to master and transform his sexuality and artistic persona. While often perceived as a solitary protest figure, Mishima, Flanagan shows, was very much in tune with postwar culture—he took up bodybuilding and became a model and actor in the 1950s, adopted the themes of contemporary political scandals in his work, courted English translators, and became influenced by the student protests and hippie subculture of the late 1960s. A groundbreaking reevaluation of the author, this succinct biography paints a revealing portrait of Mishima’s life and work.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081120118X

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Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima Pdf

The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307834317

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Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima Pdf

"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki’s true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion—and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0436281554

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Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima Pdf