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 h
At 45, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for his plays and novels, including Confessions of a Mask, The Temple of the Golden Pavil
Music Sales America Mishima String Quartet (String Quartet No.3) originally appeared as parts of the film score for Mishima by film maker Paul Schrader. The film follows a complex narrative structu
While noting that "art cannot be reduced to confession," Piven (New School for Social Research and New York U.) believes that it is possible to unpack the fantasies of Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima
On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar wit
Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the wo
Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing self-disembowelment and decapitation in downtown
Where contemporary art meets the millennium-old glassmaking techniques. The Palazzo Grimani Museum in Venice opens its doors to contemporary art with the exhibition In Grimani, a collateral event of
Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima and Junichiro Tanizaki are all giants of world literature. It stands to reason that students of Japanese would long to read them in their original language. Ixploring
This incisive biography begins withthe spectacularly tragic last day of the militant Japanese novelist, perhaps best known for his monumental four-book masterpiece The Sea of Fertility.
Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Fro
Although Mishima's main literary ambition was to write philosophical novels in the tradition of Goethe and Thomas Mann, Deadly Dialectics is the first critical study to take this objective seriously:
Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by
When Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nomi
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man’s obsession with idealized beauty and his dest
By now, Yukio Mishima's (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give hi
Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas--tw
Acclaimed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima (1925--1970) was also a prolific playwright, penning more than sixty plays, nearly all of which were produced in his lifetime. Hiroaki Sato is the first to tr
▍內容簡介： 《鏤空與浮雕III》分二輯，收入三十篇文章。範俊奇（Fabian Fom）以剔透心眼化作文字，書寫名人的歷程，他們發光和沈寂的時刻。 輯一：最是煙火靜默時，寫二十位演藝界明星、導演：周星馳 Stephen Chow、尊龍 John Lone、鞏俐 Gong Li、湯唯 Tang Wei、楊惠姍 Loretta Hui-shan Yang、胡因夢 Terry Hu、陳昇 Bobby Chen、李宗盛 Jonathan Lee、莫文蔚 Karen Joy Morris、黎明 Leon Lai、陳凱歌 Chen Kaige、賈樟柯 Jia Zhangke、徐克 Tsui Hark、杜可風 Christopher Doyle、張柏芝 Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi、林志玲 Lin Chi-ling、高以翔 Godfrey Gao、吳彥祖 Daniel Wu、陳坤 Aloys Chen、李健 Li Jian。輯二：幻滅，也是一種成全，寫十位作家文人：林懷民 Lin Hwai-min、沈從文 Shen Congwen、鬱達夫 Yu Dafu、周作人 Zhou Zuoren、胡蘭成 Hu Lancheng、老舍 Lao She、海子 Hai Zi、蕭紅 Xiao Hong、亦舒 Yi Shu、三島由紀夫 Yukio Mishima。
