Word: mishima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truly great Japanese literature which has recently become available in American markets. Leave Masks on the shelf Similar stories are easily found in the grocery store next to copies of the National Enquirer A true interest in Japanese literature will best be served by the novels of Soveki or Mishima...
...literary imagination Its plots (Jonestown, for example) are weirdly fertile, fatally ingenious. The idly speculative Connolly list, in any case, is Premature. It requires death and time to complete the writers myth. The Japanese have a macabre genius for the process. Their best writers-Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima, for example-have established a tradition of committing suicide some time before nature forces its inevitable silence upon them...
...recent are powerful condensations of modern life by Heinrich Boll, who describes a professional laugher producing merriment on cue for everyone but himself, and Paula Fox, whose News from the World describes a woman and her contaminated seaside village withering for lack of love. Between these terminals, Chekhov, Kafka, Mishima, Hemingway, Borges and a score of other master miniaturists show that brevity can be not merely the soul of wit, but the whole of it, and that almost all writing can benefit with pruning, from the short story to the rave review...
Dean of students Archie C. Epps III, whose workload dips when there are no students around, said he plans to finish Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy along with some Hugh Trevor-Roper history of 17th century England. For others he proposes reading...
...Spring Snow, by Yukio Mishima...