From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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About this Item
First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth over pink paper covered boards, the spine lettered in silver, in the illustrated dustjacket. 151 pp. A fine copy with some light mellowing to the extremities and a touch of wear to the dustjacket edges. FIRST EDITION OF THIS PENETRATING ESSAY ON YUKIO MISHIMA, THE JAPANESE NOVELIST WHO COMMITTED RITUAL SEPPUKU IN 1970 AT THE AGE OF FORTY-FIVE. "Marguerite Yourcenar, whose eye for detail is well known to readers of her work, applies the same scrutiny to Mishima's work and life, and to the often blurred boundary between them. Yourcenar's essay is a literary study and also a meditation on death and the codes of honor and how a man comes to terms with both his craft and is conscience.". Seller Inventory # 33267
Bibliographic Details
Title: MISHIMA. A Vision of the Void
Publisher: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
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