Mishima

Mishima
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 0226965325
ISBN-13 : 9780226965321
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Book Synopsis Mishima by : Marguerite Yourcenar

Download or read book Mishima written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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