Yukio Mishima’s lifelong death wish
The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Yo Zushi is a contributing writer for the New Statesman.
The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.
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