The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes

Yukio mishima Book
by Henry Scott Stokes
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The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima Description

Yukio Mishima was the best-known writer of his generation in Japan. His death by hara-kir in 1970, combined as it was with an abortive attempt at a coup d'état, caused an international sensation.
Mishima was born Kimitaké Hiraoka in 1925, the eldest son of an upper-middle-class family living in Tokyo. At twenty, he was convinced that his death was imminent. Through ill-health he avoided conscription, thus losing the chance of a glorious death in battle. However, Mishima's experiences during the war, indeed the very fact of his survival, were to colour the rest of his life.
Henry Scott Stokes, an English journalist, knew Mishima in the last years of his life. In the first biography of the writer, he explores the background to his suicide and comes to the conclusion that it was Mishima's bizarre personal aesthetic that led him to his death. He examines Mishima's narcis-sism, his devotion to body-building and the Japanese martial arts, and his strange, anachronistic political beliefs which resulted in the formation of his own private army, the Tatenokai. The book includes a description of the author's visit to the Tatenokai training camp.
Mr. Scott Stokes traces the close relationship between Mishima's life and his works, paying particular attention to his final long novel,
The Sea
of Fertity. Ultimately, however, this book is more than a biography of a novelist. It is a unique study of post-Hiroshima Japan; of the Bundan or literary world; of extreme right-wing ideologies; of the remaining traces of Emperor worship-all of which are reflected in the life of Yukio Mishima.
The book is illustrated with a series of extraordinary photographs.

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