Yukio Mishima (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

In addition to serious novels and his lighter fictional “entertainments,” Yukio Mishima wrote a number of works in a variety of genres and styles. His short stories, particularly “Yūkoku” (“Patriotism”), written in 1961, are among his most sharply etched and emotionally charged works of narrative fiction. Mishima’s writing for the stage earned for him an important reputation as a dramatist in Japan, both in the older forms of twentieth century drama such as shimpa (a hybrid between Kabuki and modern theater), for which he created a...

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