/lit/ - Literature

This man is my favorite author. I’d like to read more of the work that influenced him, particularly Japanese literature. His Western influences are clear to me: the Greek playwrights, Mann, Cocteau, Baudelaire, Nietzsche and others. What were his Eastern sources of inspiration, and where can I find the best translations?

what's his best book?

>>15406092
He doesnt

>>15057764
house 7:

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Do the individual novels within Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy have to be read chronologically to make sense? (Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn and The Decay of the Angel)

Pretty much all modern Japanese novels read like a bad adaptation of Dostoevski’s “Notes from Underground,” which is a minor work in his canon.
>Quick pop quiz: name one single highly memorable character from a Japanese novel.
You can’t because they don’t exist.
There is no Falstaff, no Hamlet, no Raskolnikov, no Oliver Twist, no Fagin, no Gatsby, no Addie Bundren, no Bigger Thomas, no Captain Ahab. It’s all just the nameless anonymous voice of Dostoevski’s Underground Man, constantly voicing his existential woe, rootless in the face of the Western onslaught.

is Mishima actually a good writer? was he ever taken seriously before the seppuku publicity stunt? if so, which of his books should i read first?

>Hardmode: No American authors

Are there any other non-western writers like Yukio Mishima?

Is there an english translation of "Yamato Race as Nucleus"?

What did he read?

>>13963864
unironically considering doing something like this. life as art and the whole nietzschean thing. Live like rimbaud for a while, produce a shit load of art, settle down, have a family, reguler job and do art on the side and then finally just before i truly get old go on a final grand adventure certain to end in my demise. die under a cloudless sky in the shining sun of some other country.

i really cant see myself living any other way. there is no honor or beauty in common life of working until death. my heart demands beauty and excellence and wild country.