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Patriotism

By Yukio Mishima , Geoffrey W. Sargent

Book information

Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Year
1995
ISBN
0811213129, 9780811213127
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
60 kB (61111 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide.By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel.  A lieutenant in the Japanese army comes home to his wife and informs her that his closest friends have become mutineers. He and his beautiful loyal wife decide to end their lives together. In unwavering detail Mishima describes Shinji and Reiko making love for the last time and the couple’s seppuku that follows.

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