Sun and Steel
byYukio Mishima
This is the personal testament of Japan's greatest novelist, written shorty before his public suicide in 1970. Through Mishima's finely wrought and emphatic prose, the mind and motivation behind his agonized search for personal identity is revealed. In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them. At one level, it may be read as an account of how a puny, bookish boy discovered the importance
Language
en
Published on
09/04/2003
Pages
108
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9784770029034
Who is this book for? Readers interested in personal narratives, identity exploration, and Japanese literature.
Topics IdentitySelf-DiscoveryPhilosophy
MoodReflective
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
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