Mishima A Vision of the Void

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 with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, and his carefully premeditated career and death.Yourcenar, Marguerite is the author of 'Mishima A Vision of the Void' with ISBN 9780226965321 and ISBN 0226965325.