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  Mishima: A Vision of the Void (Paperback) By (author) Marguerite Yourcenar, Translated by Alberto Manguel, Foreword by Donald Richie

  

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  Short Description for MishimaOn November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. In this text, Marguerite Yourcenar unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his writings and his carefully premeditated death.
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  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Published: 01 September 2001
  • Format: Paperback 152 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Literary | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
  • ISBN 13: 9780226965321 ISBN 10: 0226965325
  • Sales rank: 735,213

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• 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.