Word: nathaneal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JOHN NATHAN 300 pages. Little, Brown...
Unlike Scott-Stokes, John Nathan wrote his biography with the cooperation of Mishima's family. An associate professor of Japanese literature at Princeton, Nathan acted for a time as Mishima's translator; among other things, he impressed Mishima the muscle builder by being able to beat him at arm wrestling. Nathan's access to Mishima's family and friends yields fascinating gossip: details of the damp sickroom in which Mishima's dictatorial grandmother raised him until he was twelve, of his puritanical father's efforts to steer him away from writing and into...
Bright Widow. Nathan records Mishima's entrance into Tokyo's homo sexual world, which evidently began as a kind of professional voyeurism, the young author detachedly taking notes on the scene at a gay bar. Homosexuality sometimes figured in Mi shima's work, notably in his autobiographical novel, Confessions of a Mask. But it remained only one compartment of his extremely varied private life. Despite the flamboyant outrages he en joyed committing, Mishima had a surprising appetite for respectability. In 1958, partly because he thought it was expected of him, partly because he wanted to please...
...Nathan subordinates Mishima's work to his life. That may be unwise; without the evidence of his literary achievement, especially his last work, the tetralogy that he called The Sea of Fertility, Mishima might seem a kind of psychotic Japanese version of Monty Rock...
President John F. Kennedy '40 in 1961 issued a statement from the While House that he planned a library to house his papers. He later visited Harvard, toured the area with then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28, and announced that he had selected a site for the library near the Business School...