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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807050303321

Autore

Flanagan Damian

Titolo

Yukio Mishima / / Damian Flanagan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, United Kingdom : , : Reaktion Books, , 2014

ISBN

1-78023-419-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Reaktion Books - Critical Lives

Disciplina

895.635

Soggetti

Authors, Japanese - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Yukio Mishima; Imprint Page; Contents; 1. Japan in the Age of Mishima; 2. Macrocosm and Microcosm; 3. A Mask Facing Inwards; 4. Sentenced to Live; 5. Mishima à la Mode; 6. Nihil; 7. Seas of Controversy; 8. The Faustian Pact; 9. Battle against Time; 10. Time and Mr Mishima; A Note on Japanese Names; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

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 exp