num_pages: 160
description: 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 his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, and his carefully premeditated death.
language: English
title: Mishima: A Vision of the Void
titlecomplete: Mishima: A Vision of the Void
characters: Yukio Mishima
genres: Asia, Essays, Biography, French Literature, Japanese Literature, Literature, Criticism, Nonfiction, Japan, France
ratings_count: 640
publisher: University of Chicago Press