Dec 21, 2009
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Mishima, Yukio
Mishima, Yukio
(
1925
–
70
),
Japanese novelist. Although married, with children,
Mishima's
work is suffused with a strong homoerotic sensibility. His first—and some say his best—novel, Confessions of a Mask (
1949
), deals directly with homosexuality, as does Forbidden Colours (
1954
). Even his later, political activities, culminating in his ritual samurai-style suicide, reflect his aesthetic and sexual preoccupations.
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