Yukio Mishima
Kimitake Hiraoka , also known as Yukio Mishima , was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai , an unarmed civilian militia. Mishima is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, but the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion , and the autobiographical essay Sun and Steel . Mishima's work is characterized by "its luxurious vocabulary and decadent metaphors, its fusion of traditional Japanese and modern Western literary styles, and its obsessive assertions of the unity of beauty, eroticism and death", according to author Andrew Rankin.
Books by Yukio Mishima
6 books available
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
3.9(20,621)
A voyeuristic boy, obsessed with the sea's purity, believes he finds cosmic order in his mother's affair with a sailor, only to be disillusioned by human emotion and domesticity.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
by Yukio Mishima
4.0(12,042)
Haunted by his father's death and a severe stutter, Mizoguchi seeks identity in Kyoto's Golden Pavilion, only to become obsessed with its beauty and eventually destroy it to feel free.
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
3.9(15,437)
In post-war Japan, a young man's growing homosexuality becomes a stifling secret, forcing him to face the divide between his inner desires and the life he feels forced to live.
Spring Snow
by Yukio Mishima
4.2(12,256)
In 1912 Tokyo, a young aristocrat's hidden love for his childhood friend turns into a tragic obsession when she is promised to a prince, disrupting their lives and the balance between duty and class.
The Sound of Waves
by Yukio Mishima
3.8(11,455)
In a remote Japanese fishing village, a young fisherman and the wealthiest daughter fall in love, overcoming village gossip and class differences.
Runaway Horses
by Yukio Mishima
4.2(4,951)
In a Japan grappling with modernity, a charismatic young patriot, steeped in the samurai code, ignites a desperate terrorist plot to restore the Emperor's power and dismantle the industrialists he believes are corrupting the nation's soul.