Bibliograph

Persona, a Biography of Yukio Mishima

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Persona, a Biography of Yukio Mishima

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 803-808) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Persona

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

826479168

Sub title

a Biography of Yukio Mishima

Summary

A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide

Table Of Contents

Table of Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1. Peasant Ancestors and Grandfather; 2. Samurai Ancestors and Grandmother; 3. ""The Boy Who Writes Poems""; 4. Literary Correspondents; 5. First Love; 6. The War and Its Aftermath; 7. To Be a Bureaucrat or a Writer; 8. Confessions; 9. Boyfriends, Girlfriends; 10. Going Overseas; 11. The Girlfriend; 12. The Kinkakuji; 13. Overseas Again; 14. Marriage; 15. Kyoko's House; 16. The 2.26 Incident, Yukoku; 17. Assassinations; 18. Contretemps; 19. The Nobel Prize; 20. Shinpuren, Men of the Divine Wind; 21. "The Way of the Warrior is to die"; 22. Death in India23. The Anti-Vietnam War Movement24. Sun and Steel; 25. The Shield Society, Counterrevolution; 26. The Yakuza; 27. Wang Yangming: "To know is to act"; 28. The Constitution; 29. Hailstones, Ghouls, Golden Death; 30. Toward Ichigaya; 31. The Seppuku; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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