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 death.Yourcenar, Marguerite is the author of 'Mishima: A Vision of the Void', published 1987 under ISBN 9780374520618 and ISBN 0374520615.