"What is strange from a man inclined to find the age of thirty! His youth belongs to the distant past. But the time of memory, starting at the end of youth and the expansion of the species, not a single vivid impression . And so he remains in the sense that nothing more than a fragile barrier separates him from his youth. He is always very clearly heard the sounds of this neighboring domain, but there is no way to penetrateBarrier. "
Three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize for literature, Yukio Mishima is considered the most important Japanese writers of the twentieth century, and until the arrival of more recently by Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto was the writer with the highest readership outside Japan.
Extremely fruitful, despite a relatively short life, he produced forty novels, at least twenty books of essays, poetry, games eighteen - including modern Kabuki and Noh dramas,some of whom have also acted, and a booklet. He was an astute critic - a talent yet rated higher than some of his novels, and has appeared in four films as an actor of some ability - which he directed and produced. Mishima was considered the sole author of his time enough talent to write in a traditional kabuki play, a professor of Kyoto University described him as a man of "talent scary."
Born Kimitake Hiraoka, was taken from hisParents and literature raised by his grandmother, the only source samurai family who instilled in his grandson's love is, and after some biographers disease, and neurosis. Many traces of literary themes and actions later in this early start and difficult.
At sixteen, he took the pen name Yukio Mishima, a move is explained how to hide his work from an anti-literary father and hiding his true age. Yuki Yukio comes from the word, themeans snow and Mishima is a city for its view of the snowy peaks of the mountain known. Fuji.
Mishima avoided by the army during the Second World War, after incorrectly diagnosed with pleurisy recovered. As a student of law at the University of Tokyo, has published his first collection of short stories, and the following year, in 1944, he published his first important work, The forest in bloom, a great success for all writers Japanese books like the few that were published during the war. The firstEdition of 4,000 copies sold in one week.
All of his novels contain paradoxes: beauty contrasts with the violence and death, the desire for love and his refusal, when offered, the dichotomy between traditional Japanese values and the spiritual emptiness of contemporary life, paradoxes, to play - his writing was semi-autobigraphical in all cases, sometimes full.
Mishima-known works include the autobiographical Confessions of a Mask, The Golden TempleThe pavilion and lake Fertility tetralogy, considered by many to be his long-term success - sent the final volume to his publisher on the day of his suicide.
At the end of the fall of Angel, the last volume of the Sea of Fertility, Mishima turned the whole series on its head, a single, blinding burst of prose undermines the foundations of everything that was there before, a stunning turn of events that the author brilliantly pulled off. Some reviewers suggest that commitSeppuku immediately after writing such a site is understandable - how could you live according to the letter with something so brilliant?
for the decay of the angel was called at the end perhaps the most shocking end to all the literature, was life, then that's especially shocking endings real - not an author who wanted to vehemently reject old or bent out of the top of the his game in 45 years, plans drawn up after a coup or to failAttempt to restore traditional values of Japanese society, which are worthy of them robbed, he committed ritual suicide, 25 November 1970.
"The whole Japan was under a curse all went running after money the old spiritual tradition .. materialism of the day the order was modern Japan is bad .."
Toshiro Mayuzumi, a close friend of Mishima's last twenty years, he said. "He was a man of action, his death was suicide, an attempt to change the world, at least to stimulate theAlerting the public to reasonable disagreements about postwar Japan, the Constitution, the Self-Defense Forces, education, moral decay. "
My friend, former right hand man and fellow writer Yasunari Kawabata, Mishima honored with the statement "a writer of the caliber of [Mishima] appears only once every 200 or 300 years." Ironically, Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature two years earlier, in 1968 the Japanese Mishima waited a long time an award for being the first.
HisBurial was at 10,000 visitors, the largest of its kind ever held in Japan, and his comment on Hagakure - taught morals, Samurai - became an instant bestseller.
Mishima wrote in his diary, "all I want is beauty." A dedicated body-builder, master karate kendo and tried all his life to himself more beautiful, and strong. He saw beauty as a form of purity, which could also be achieved by a good deed, and death.
"If the valuehigh dignity of life, as we also value the dignity of death? No death may be hopeless. "
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