Acts of Worship (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Yukio Mishima
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Suicide, Nationalism, Jazz music, Military life or service, Existentialism, Patriotism, Japan or Japanese people, Pornography
Twenty years after his death, Yukio Mishima is probably still best known to the American public as the ultranationalist writer who, with much publicity, committed ritual suicide with another member of his right-wing paramilitary group, the Shield Society, in 1970. Although he is the author of numerous novels, plays, and short stories, his most widely read work of fiction is the short story “Patriotism,” which describes in excruciatingly graphic detail the ritual disembowelment of a Japanese military officer and the suicide of his young wife. The story is even more famous for the...
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