Mishima [miśima] Yukio, właśc. Hiraoka Kimitake, ur. 14 I 1925, Tokio, zm. 25 XI 1970, tamże, japoński prozaik, dramatopisarz i eseista;
prowadził działalność polit. w duchu nacjonalizmu i szowinizmu; popełnił samobójstwo (seppuku) po nieudanej próbie przewrotu wojsk.; jego twórczość lit., charakteryzująca się wnikliwą analizą psychol., łączy rodzime i eur. techniki i wątki lit.; powieści Kamen-no kokuhaku [wyznanie maski] (1951), Kinjiki [zakazane kolory] (1951), Kinkakuji [złoty pawilon] (1957), Hojo-no umi [płodne morze] (t. 1–4 1970); sztuki teatr. nawiązujące do teatru no (jednoaktówki Wachlarz, Jesteś piękna, Adamaszkowy bębenek 1956, wyst. pol. 1965), opowiadania.
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness ...
The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers
Koji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly ...
When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable ...
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 ...
The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers
Koji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly ...
Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books.
Translated into ...
After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But ...
'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'
A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body ...
„Odwagi dodawał mi fakt, że i mnie, i Złotej Pagodzie groziły na tym świecie te same niebezpieczeństwa. Znalazłem ...
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of ...