Mishima, Yukio - Hosea Hirata (essay date 1990)
Hosea Hirata (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Hirata, Hosea. “To Slit the Beautiful Body/Text: Mishima's Jouissance to Death.” Literature Interpretation Theory 2, no. 2 (1990): 85-94.
[In the following essay, Hirata explores the meaning of death in Mishima's texts and the meaning of Mishima's own textual death.]
“[I]t is always something like an opening which will frustrate the structuralist project. What I can never understand, in a structure, is that by means of which it is not closed” (160).
—Jacques Derrida
Mishima Yukio1: how could we seize this bloody origin—the origin of so many luxurious texts that tightly surround it? Mishima Yukio is a textual product par excellence. It seems that his whole mode of being was to produce his own “self-text.” He kept exhibiting himself. Scattered around us are his words, his books, his images, his photos, his...
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