Ebook: Persona: a biography of Yukio Mishima

23. The Anti-Vietnam War Movement24. Sun and Steel; 25. The Shield Society, Counterrevolution; 26. The Yakuza; 27. Wang Yangming: "To know is to act"; 28. The Constitution; 29. Hailstones, Ghouls, Golden Death; 30. Toward Ichigaya; 31. The Seppuku; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.;""Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing self-disembowelment and decapitation in downtown Tokyo in 1970. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Mishima was the best-known novelist of his time (works like Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion are still in print in English), and his legacy--his persona--is still honored and puzzled over. Who was Yukio Mishima really? This, the first full biography to appear in English in almost forty years, traces Mishima's trajectory from a sickly boy named Kimitake Hiraoka to a hard-bodied student of martial arts. In detail it examines his family life, the wartime years, and his emergence, then fame, as a writer and advocate for traditional values. Revealed here are all the personalities and conflicts and sometimes petty backbiting that shaped the culture of postwar literary Japan.""--Publisher's description.;Table of Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1. Peasant Ancestors and Grandfather; 2. Samurai Ancestors and Grandmother; 3. ""The Boy Who Writes Poems""; 4. Literary Correspondents; 5. First Love; 6. The War and Its Aftermath; 7. To Be a Bureaucrat or a Writer; 8. Confessions; 9. Boyfriends, Girlfriends; 10. Going Overseas; 11. The Girlfriend; 12. The Kinkakuji; 13. Overseas Again; 14. Marriage; 15. Kyoko's House; 16. The 2.26 Incident, Yukoku; 17. Assassinations; 18. Contretemps; 19. The Nobel Prize; 20. Shinpuren, Men of the Divine Wind; 21. "The Way of the Warrior is to die"; 22. Death in India.