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Patriotism

Yukio Mishima

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One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide.

By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel. A lieutenant in the Japanese army comes home to his wife and informs her that his closest friends have become mutineers. He and his beautiful loyal wife decide to end their lives together. In unwavering detail Mishima describes Shinji and Reiko making love for the last time and the couple’s seppuku that follows.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 64 pages

Publication:: 1995

Publisher:: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Edition:: Sixth Printing

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0811213129

ISBN13:: 9780811213127

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Patriotism

Yukio Mishima

4.11/5 (3802 ratings)

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One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide.

By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel. A lieutenant in the Japanese army comes home to his wife and informs her that his closest friends have become mutineers. He and his beautiful loyal wife decide to end their lives together. In unwavering detail Mishima describes Shinji and Reiko making love for the last time and the couple’s seppuku that follows.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 64 pages

Publication:: 1995

Publisher:: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Edition:: Sixth Printing

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0811213129

ISBN13:: 9780811213127

kindle Asin:: B089QWTTC6

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