When Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times and had seen almost all of his major novels appear in English. While the flamboyance of his life and the apparent fanaticism of his death have dominated the public's perception of his achievement, Japanese and Western critics alike are in agreement that his literary gifts were prodigious. Mishima is arguably at his best in the shorter forms, and it is the flower of these that appears here for the first time in English. Each story has its own distinctive atmosphere and each is brilliantly organized, yielding deeper layers of meaning with repeated readings. The psychological observation, particularly in what it reveals of the turmoil of adolescence, is meticulous. The style, with its skillful blending of colors and surfaces, shows Mishima in top form, and no further proof is needed to remind us that he was a consummate writer whose work is an irreplaceable part of world literature.
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Kimitake Hiraoka
Grande admirador das tradições milenares da cultura japonesa, especialmente da conduta virtuosística dos samurais, Yukio Mishima - pseudônimo de Hiraoka Kimitake - viveu a literatura como se fosse parte indissociável de sua existência. Além de romances, escreveu também poemas, ensaios e peças teatrais. Crítico contumaz da degradação do Japão moderno, permaneceu sempre em luta pela retomada dos valores clássicos do seu país, até cometer o suicídio, em 1970. Sua morte é emblemática de como, para ele, arte e vida não se separavam: depois de rasgar o próprio ventre com um sabre, foi decapitado por um de seus discípulos, de acordo com a tradição samurai. É um dos escritores japoneses mais conhecido do mundo ocidental, tendo sido indicado três vezes ao Prêmio Nobel de Literatura.
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Honshu, Japão