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Mishima's Sword

Author : Christopher Ross

Publisher : Da Capo Press

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 28,56 MB

Release : 2007-10-02

Category : Travel

ISBN : 9780306815683

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On November 25, 1970, the world renowned Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed seppuku with his own antique sword. Mishima's spectacular suicide has been called many things: a hankering for heroism; a beautiful, perverse drama; a political protest against Japan's emasculated postwar constitution; the epitaph of a mad genius. Part travelogue, part biography, and part philosophical treatise, Mishima's Sword is the story of Christopher Ross's journey to find a sword and maybe an understanding of Mishima's country. The cold trail the author follows inspires a tale of the most engaging-and occasionally bizarre-sort, with glimpses of the real Japan that is not seen by tourists, with digressions on, among other things, bushido and socks, mutineers and Noh ghosts, nosebleeds and metallurgy-and even how to dress for suicide.



Sun & Steel

Author : Yukio Mishima

Publisher : New York : Grove Press

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 11,77 MB

Release : 1970

Category : Gay people

ISBN :

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Consists of a series of essays



Travels

Author : Michael Crichton

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 464 pages

File Size : 30,69 MB

Release : 2012-05-14

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0307816494

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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro. Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels—an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.



Mishima's Sword

Author : Christopher Ross

Publisher :

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 27,91 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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The stunning new book from Christopher Ross, "Sunday Times" top 10 bestselling author of "Tunnel Visions." On 25th November 1970, the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, in one last piece of theatre of a peculiar life, plunged a knife into his tightly muscled belly and stretched out his neck so that his friend Morita might cut off his head with a Samurai sword. His death, an act in the frontline of the spirit, has been interpreted as many things: a desire for heroism; an attempt at a form of beauty; a protest against an emasculated post-war Japan; the ultimate demonstration of sincerity; the performance of a madman. So who exactly was Mishima, why did he offer himself up? And what happened to that sword? Christopher Ross's own life overlaps with Mishima's: they were both weedy and picked on at school, both harbour a fascination with martial arts and the relationship between the body and the mind.



Life for Sale

Author : Yukio Mishima

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 40,38 MB

Release : 2020-04-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0525565159

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After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots—even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.



Persona

Author : Naoki Inose

Publisher : Stone Bridge Press

Page : 866 pages

File Size : 31,50 MB

Release : 2013-01-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1611720087

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Traces the life of the Japanese author who went from sickly youth to dedicated student of the martial arts, looking at his family life, the wartime years, and his career as a writer who advocated for traditional values.



The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima

Author : Henry Scott Stokes

Publisher : Cooper Square Press

Page : 353 pages

File Size : 23,78 MB

Release : 2000-08-08

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1461624223

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Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one of Mishima's closest friends, was the only non-Japanese allowed to attend the trial of the men involved in Mishima's spectacular suicide. In this insightful and empathetic look at the writer, Stokes guides the reader through the milestones of Mishima's meteoric and eclectic career and delves into the artist's major works and themes. This biography skillfully and compassionately illuminates the achievements and disquieting ideas of a brilliant and deeply troubled man, an artist of whom Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata had said, "A writer of Mishima's caliber comes along only once every two or three hundred years."



A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 49,70 MB

Release : 2015-03-13

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1410321282

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A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.



三島由紀夫短編集

Author : Yukio Mishima

Publisher : Kodansha

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 50,3 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Japan

ISBN : 9784770028938

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"Reveals another side of Mishima's skill with words: his delicacy and subtlety." -The New York Times "A startlingly original collection of stories by a world class Japanese writer." -Boston Globe



Patriotism

Author : Yukio Mishima

Publisher : New Directions Publishing

Page : 68 pages

File Size : 14,13 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780811213127

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'Was it death he was now waiting for? Or a wild ecstasy of the senses?' For the young army officer of Yukio Mishima's seminal story, 'Patriotism, ' death and ecstasy become elementally intertwined. With his unique rigor and passion, Mishima hones in on the body as the great tragic stage for all we call social, ritual, political.