{"title":"Yukio Mishima","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWriter, playwright, model, martial arts master, leader of a failed coup that ended with his death by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eseppuku\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Nationalist, fascist. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMishima was one of the most important stylists of the Japanese language after the war. Nominated for the Nobel five times in the 1960s. He never received it. «Right or left, I am pro-violence»\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"depois-do-banquete","title":"After the banquet","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriter, playwright, model, martial arts master and leader of a failed coup d'état that ended with his death, in public, by \u003cem\u003eseppuku\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMishima was the most important stylist of the Japanese language in the post-war era. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times in the 1960s. He never received it. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “Luxurious vocabulary, decadent metaphors that blend traditional Japanese and modern Western literary styles”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA total intransigence and obsession with the unity between beauty, eroticism and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eKazu walked through the garden; not being married, she found in this a perfect physical pleasure and an occasion to meditate in complete freedom. All day long, she would chatter, sing: she was never alone. 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It leaves us with an intransigence: beauty, eroticism and death are one and the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis, like \"Confessions of a Woman\" (Tanizaki, out of print), burned me with tears in my hands. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMishima, \u003c\/strong\u003eWriter, playwright, model, martial arts master and leader of a failed coup d'état that ended with his death, in public, by \u003cem\u003eseppuku\u003c\/em\u003e. He was the most important stylist of the post-war Japanese language. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times in the 1960s. He never received it. 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It is also a reflection on the relationship between action and art, and in particular on his own art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a more personal level, it is an account of the search for identity and integration, demonstrating how an intensely individual preoccupation can be developed until it becomes a philosophy of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConfession and self-analysis, philosophy and poetry combine, in the end, to create something that is, in itself, perfect and self-sufficient, a literary work as carefully constructed as Mishima’s novels and which, at the same time, provides an indispensable key to understanding those novels as art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also serves as a precursor to Mishima’s dramatic suicide in 1970, mirroring his belief in tragic fulfillment and the warrior ethos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis life and work frequently confront concepts such as honour, rebellion, and the interaction between eroticism and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMishima, \u003c\/strong\u003eWriter, playwright, model, martial arts master, and leader of a failed coup d’état that ended with his death, in public, by \u003cem\u003eseppuku\u003c\/em\u003e. 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