Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing self-disembowelment and decapitation in downtown Tokyo in 1970. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Mishima was the best-known novelist of his time (works like "Confessions of a Mask" and "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" are still...
Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing self-disembowelment and decapitation in downtown Tokyo in 1970. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Mishima was the best-known novelist of his time (works like "Confessions of a Mask" and "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" are still in print in English), and his legacy--his "persona"--is still honored and puzzled over. Who was Yukio Mishima really? This, the first full biography to appear in English in almost forty years, traces Mishima's trajectory from a sickly boy named Kimitake Hiraoka to a hard-bodied student of martial arts. In detail it examines his family life, the wartime years, and his emergence, then fame, as a writer and advocate for traditional values. Revealed here are all the personalities and conflicts and sometimes petty backbiting that shaped the culture of postwar literary Japan. Working entirely from primary sources and material unavailable to other biographers, author Naoki Inose and translator Hiroaki Sato together have produced a monumental work that covers much new ground in unprecedented depth. Using interviews, social and psychological analysis, and close reading of novels and essays, "Persona" removes the mask that Mishima so artfully created to disguise his true self. Naoki Inose, currently vice governor of Tokyo, has also written biographies of writers Kikuchi Kan and Osamu Dazai. New York-based Hiroaki Sato is an award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry, and also translated Mishima's novel "Silk and Insight."
Prologue
Chapter One: The Hometown
Chapter Two: Grandparents and Parents
Chapter Three: The Boy Who Write Poems (1937-1942)
Chapter Four: Azuma Fumihiko
Chapter Five: First Love (1942-1945)
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Prologue
Chapter One: The Hometown
Chapter Two: Grandparents and Parents
Chapter Three: The Boy Who Write Poems (1937-1942)
Chapter Four: Azuma Fumihiko
Chapter Five: First Love (1942-1945)
Chapter Six: The Aftermath of the War (1945-1946)
Chapter Seven: A Bureaucrat or a Writer
Chapter Eight: Confessions (1948-1949)
Chapter Nine: Boyfriends, Girlfriends (1950-1951)
Chapter Ten: Going Overseas (1951-1952)
Chapter Eleven: The Girlfriend (1953-1957)
Chapter Twelve: Kinkakuji (1956-1957)
Chapter Thirteen: Overseas Again (1957)
Chapter Fourteen: Marriage (1958-1959)
Chapter Fifteen: Kyoko’s House (1959)
Chapter Sixteen: The 2.26 Incident and Yukoku (1960)
Chapter Seventeen: Assassinations (1960-1963)
Chapter Eighteen: Contretemps (1963-1964)
Chapter Nineteen: The Nobel Prize (1964-1965)
Chapter Twenty: The Shimpuren (1966-1967)
Chapter Twenty-One: “The Way of the Warrior is to die” (1967)
Chapter Twenty-Two: Passage to India (1967)
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement (1968)
Chapter Twenty-Four: Sun and Steel (Mid-1968-Early 1969)
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Shield Society and Counterrevolution
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Yakuza
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Yangming Philosophy and Revolution Chapter Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Constitution
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Toward Ichigaya
Chapter Thirty: The Seppuku
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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“Today a writer without a powerful idea dies or weakens just as a soldier without a powerful body dropped out during the war,” Mishima insisted. “This is because in a mythical, monstrous, fabulous age such as the modem times, each person must act out a fierce drama, which he will not be able to bear if he tries to do it with his body alone.”
“I am an affirmer of violence,” he went on, “and I would like to act out, with spiritual violence, a very bloody evil deed. In fact, whenever I see a pretty boy, I want to splash oil all over him, light it, and burn him.” His “ideal life” if he were to become rich enough would be to “keep a hungry lion” and, when the time for his own death approaches, to “throw all the boys I love into the lion cage and die, while watching the spectacle, by taking hero... (查看原文)
The direct impetus for Mishima, in fact, may have been the news in October 1955 of the completion of the rebuilt pavilion. Discussing “the aesthetic of Muromachi” in the same essay, Mishima said: “What I love is the freshly built, glittery gilt pavilion that people badmouth, likening it to a movie set,” not the ancient or tired-looking one that had lost much of its luster over the centuries. “I think in that [glitter] lay the aesthetic of Muromachi, lay Shogun Yoshimitsu’s bliss. Only with that glitter [the building] matches the design of the nō costumes.” What strikes many of those who see a nō drama staged for the first time is the incongruously resplendent costumes the actors wear in telling mostly somber stories ridden with anxiety and torment. (查看原文)
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1 有用 陳若望 2017-10-31 03:10:39
讀了大半，英譯的內容得是日文版的兩倍還要多多了，譯者增訂的實在太多了。這可能是目前最全面的三島傳記了吧。缺點是其中專名到了英文裏直接是羅馬音，作者也不把漢字加上，讀起來卡而又卡。在行文上，一個句子裏常常加入插入語，三個甚至以上，顯得很繞，看著也累，還是讀了主句再看這些修飾語吧。
1 有用 Franger 2019-05-04 00:43:02
终于看完了，这本书大概是我看得用时最长的书了，全书非常细致，细致到每个出场的人差不多都有起码一个章节介绍，光介绍个三岛的先祖就介绍出去快一百页……对三岛资料的收集远多于其他三岛传记，作者本人是日本文学研究学者，对三岛的文本分析得相当细致，看完之后有种一直误读了三岛的感觉……可惜近代能乐集后面几部还有春雪天人五衰说得不细……真希望这书能出，比尤瑟纳尔和斯托克斯的都强多了，就是可惜因某章怕不是出不了了... 终于看完了，这本书大概是我看得用时最长的书了，全书非常细致，细致到每个出场的人差不多都有起码一个章节介绍，光介绍个三岛的先祖就介绍出去快一百页……对三岛资料的收集远多于其他三岛传记，作者本人是日本文学研究学者，对三岛的文本分析得相当细致，看完之后有种一直误读了三岛的感觉……可惜近代能乐集后面几部还有春雪天人五衰说得不细……真希望这书能出，比尤瑟纳尔和斯托克斯的都强多了，就是可惜因某章怕不是出不了了。 (展开)
1 有用 Franger 2019-05-04 00:43:02
终于看完了，这本书大概是我看得用时最长的书了，全书非常细致，细致到每个出场的人差不多都有起码一个章节介绍，光介绍个三岛的先祖就介绍出去快一百页……对三岛资料的收集远多于其他三岛传记，作者本人是日本文学研究学者，对三岛的文本分析得相当细致，看完之后有种一直误读了三岛的感觉……可惜近代能乐集后面几部还有春雪天人五衰说得不细……真希望这书能出，比尤瑟纳尔和斯托克斯的都强多了，就是可惜因某章怕不是出不了了... 终于看完了，这本书大概是我看得用时最长的书了，全书非常细致，细致到每个出场的人差不多都有起码一个章节介绍，光介绍个三岛的先祖就介绍出去快一百页……对三岛资料的收集远多于其他三岛传记，作者本人是日本文学研究学者，对三岛的文本分析得相当细致，看完之后有种一直误读了三岛的感觉……可惜近代能乐集后面几部还有春雪天人五衰说得不细……真希望这书能出，比尤瑟纳尔和斯托克斯的都强多了，就是可惜因某章怕不是出不了了。 (展开)
1 有用 陳若望 2017-10-31 03:10:39
讀了大半，英譯的內容得是日文版的兩倍還要多多了，譯者增訂的實在太多了。這可能是目前最全面的三島傳記了吧。缺點是其中專名到了英文裏直接是羅馬音，作者也不把漢字加上，讀起來卡而又卡。在行文上，一個句子裏常常加入插入語，三個甚至以上，顯得很繞，看著也累，還是讀了主句再看這些修飾語吧。