Mishima's Sword - Couverture souple

Ross, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0306815680 ISBN 13 : 9780306815683

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2007

Synopsis

In 1970, the world-famous Japanese writer Yukio Mishima plunged a knife into his belly and was decapitated using his own antique sword. In the decades since, people have asked endless far-ranging questions about this spectacular suicide. Christopher Ross wondered, What on earth happened to Mishima's sword? And so Ross sets off for Tokyo on a journey into the heart of the Mishima legend -- the very heart of Japan. It was a country Ross knew well after nearly five years of living there -- but nothing could have prepared him for this. While searching for the fabled sword, Ross encounters the rather startling range of those who knew Mishima . . . a world, or perhaps more accurately a demimonde, of craftsmen and critics, soldiers and swordsmen, boyfriends and biographers (even the man who taught Mishima hara-kiri). The trail Ross follows inspires a travelogue of the most eye-opening--and occasionally bizarre -- sort, a window into the real Japan that is never seen by tourists and the occasion for digressions on, among other things, socks and the code of the samurai, nosebleeds and metallurgy . . . even how to dress for suicide. Mishima's Sword is a dazzling read -- the perfect book for all those intrigued by things Japanese, from gangsters to Genji, from manga to Mishima.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Ross lives in Paris. His first book, Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher, was a bestseller in the United Kingdom.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0306815680
• ISBN 13: 9780306815683
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 273
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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