Mishima Ou La Vision Du Vide by Marguerite Yourcenar
A concise, probing study of a controversial Japanese writer that examines how his art and life were shaped by an obsessive quest for beauty, discipline and mythic perfection; the book reads his fiction, public performances and political gestures as intertwined expressions of a ritualized aesthetics of the body and death, tracing how the yearning for form and purity, nationalist theatrics and private longing culminated in a staged act of self-destruction and illuminate a recurring confrontation with emptiness.
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- Mishima, or The Vision of the Void
- Mishima: A Vision of the Void
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