Mishima : a vision of the void

Author(s)

• Yourcenar, Marguerite
• Manguel, Alberto
• Richie, Donald

Bibliographic Information

Mishima : a vision of the void

Marguerite Yourcenar ; translated by Alberto Manguel in collaboration with the author ; and with a new foreword by Donald Richie

University of Chicago Press, 2001

• pbk. : alk. paper

Other Title

Mishima, ou, La vision du vide

Description and Table of Contents

Description

On 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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Details

• NCID: BA55168817
• ISBN:
  • 0226965325
• LCCN: 00054480
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 151 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PL833.I7
  • DC21 : 895.6/35
  • DC21 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970
  • LCSH : Authors, Japanese -- 20th century -- Biography