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Beauty and Violence: A Biography of Yukio Mishima Author: [UK] Henry Scott Stokes Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
Beauty and Violence: A Biography of Yukio Mishima Author: [UK] Henry Scott Stokes Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
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Introduction · · · · · ·
◎ “Beauty, beautiful things, are my enemies.”
◎ Henry Scott Stokes, a well-known British journalist, cites rich first-hand historical materials to uncover the legendary life of the Japanese literary giant.
◎ Authoritative Biography of Yukio Mishima
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【Editor's recommendation】
1. Yukio Mishima is one of the masters of Japanese post-war literature. He enjoys a high reputation in the international literary world, is extremely influential, and has many Chinese readers.
2. The author of this book is a foreign journalist who was Mishima's best personal friend during his lifetime. He has a unique perspective on Mishima's works and has a large amount of detailed and reliable first-hand information. It is a rare biographical material for Mishima's fans.
3. Well-known writers and translators then carefully translated and revised the translation.
【Content Introduction】
Yukio Mishima, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times and is one of the most prestigious writers in Japan after World War II, was deeply influenced by classical culture since childhood. He became famous in his youth with "Confessions of a Mask". When he completed the four-volume novel "The Sea of Fertility" in his prime, he "committed harakiri" to express his radical political demands, leaving the world with an unsolved mystery...
Beauty and Violence is the earliest and most authoritative biography of Yukio Mishima, and also an answer sheet that attempts to solve the mystery of the writer's death. It was written by his friend, the senior British journalist Henry Scott Stokes. In this book, the author cites rich literary historical materials to review the writer's short but brilliant creative process, and at the same time makes a horizontal comparison with contemporary masters such as Dazai Osamu and Kawabata Yasunari, vividly depicting the life of a writer who has been thinking tirelessly between the East and the West, the classics and the modern, and pursuing the aesthetic realm of "death, darkness and blood".
【Media Comments】
A talented writer as brilliant as Yukio Mishima is hard to come by once every two or three hundred years.
—— Yasunari Kawabata
This book is very humane and insightful, and perhaps very close to the subject that Western readers want to read about... that is, the review and examination of the literary history of this writer.
——Times
About the Author · · · · · ·
Henry Scott Stokes
Henry is a famous British journalist who was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford University. After graduation, he went to Japan and became a reporter for the Tokyo bureau of The New York Times. He later served as the Tokyo bureau chief of The Financial Times, The Times and The New York Times. Henry was a good friend of the writer Yukio Mishima and his best foreign journalist.
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Translator:
So, a writer and young translator. He is the author of No Such Person, and has translated Olga Tokarczuk's Wandering, Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Jenny Winterson's Between Time and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and Stephen King's The Dark Tower.
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