/lit/ - Literature

>finished Runaway Horses
All I have to say is what the fuck Mishima

Never realized Mishima was so fluent in English

I read Confessions of a Mask, The Sound of Waves, and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. I intended to read Sailor next and then the tetralogy but I felt like a change of pace after Temple and now I'm worried I broke my flow by reading three books by authors other than Mishima. And then I went to the library to get I, Claudius and Augustus. I hope I have not ruined my summer of Mishima!

I also had to spend six days with family which broke my exercise and diet routine and I got sick when I returned from my trip which has so far been an additional five days of broken routine. Everything is falling apart.

He was sorta ugly but had undeniable drip

Where's the best place to start with Yukio Mishima?

I hear it said 'nihilism' played some role in his philosophy, is this true?

Does anyone know where I can get free PDFs of untranslated Japanese literature? Specifically I'm looking for some Mishima. I've been studying the language for a few years but haven't done a lot of reading in it, so I'm hoping to hone my reading abilities and gain some vocabulary.

>Then came the Students' Association. The League of Virtue was founded. All so fantastic that no human being could grasp it. But I did. Now it is me no one grasps: I am the most German being, I am the German spirit. Question the incomparable magic of my works, compare them with the rest: and you can, for the present, say no differently than that - it is German. But what is this German? It must be something wonderful, mustn't it, for it is humanly finer than all else? - Oh heavens! It should have a soil, this German! I should be able to find my people! What a glorious people it ought to become. But to this people only could I belong.
- Wagner

>Right now I have no room in my life for thinking about the future, because I am convinced that I am the last remnant of the cultural traditions and national characteristics of the Japanese people that have continue since antiquity, an that when I am gone it will be all over. I am the purest essence of this thing called Japan, and that is how I will end.
- Mishima

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>>18278831
Secondly, we are opposed to communism for the sake of protecting freedom of speech.
We aim to smash the nationalist mask of the Communist Party of Japan; in other words, to shatter the illusion of its humanistic-socialism that claims to achieve the protection of freedom of speech, through the Japanese way, for the first time in the world, as this political experiment of theirs, even if it is implemented as literally described, will immediately and patently reveal its horrifying one-party dictatorial nature once it succeeds.

Fifth, resorting first and foremost to speech struggle, economic struggle, and political struggle are their customary tactics, and “discussion” is but a ploy embedded in their tactics. Our fight only needs to be one round, and it must be a fight in which we put life and death at stake. After fighting the round we gamble with life and death, it is up to history, spiritual values, and moral principles to make the judgment. Our anti-revolutionary movement is a shoreline operation against the enemies. The shoreline refers not to the geographic shoreline of Japan, but the spiritual bulwark of us as individual Japanese. With the courage and confidence to go against the prevailing trend, we shall not mind becoming hated and despised enemies of the revolutionary masses. Bracing against the abuse and revilement, ridicule, taunts, and provocations from the masses and remaining steadfast and undeterred, we are resolved to commit our own lives to reawaken their eroded Japanese spirit.

We are the embodiment of the traditional aesthetics and virtues of Japan.
January, the 44th Year of Shōwa.

Stop studying the body through words and start studying words through the body. Pain and death is the only thing that will bring you closer to the truth.

>Literary genius
>Understood that going outside, living and training your body is more important than just thinking
>Got the romanticized death he wanted and deserved

Why is Mishima one of the only authors who got what it means to live.

When i first started learning about Yukio Mishima i felt like some of his struggles resembled my own, i don't identify with his struggle with his homosexuality (i'm straight) but i do struggle living outside the west but being incredibly influenced by it and not feeling like i belong to neither my or the western cultures
His house was modelled after european ones and he had great respect for the west but also despised what the west did to japan, that's the same with me and how my country has only become more degenerate because of the west but i still love the west in a way... It's hard for me to explain it
What about you?

>>17095689
Most chad as well

Noboru was a little fucking freak
Ryuji didnt deserve it bros

Which of his books contain gay shit so I can avoid it?

Yes.

What the fuck was his problem?

Moving on to dealing with real life so thanks for all the book recs and dumb shit have a good day you bastards

I need to a journey to find my own masculinity and pride.
What are some essential literature that I have to read?
I prefer if it's popular book because I need it in translation. thank you lads.

>Friedrich Nietzsche, who in his younger years was one of Wagner's staunchest allies, wrote that, for him, "Tristan and Isolde is the real opus metaphysicum of all art ... insatiable and sweet craving for the secrets of night and death ... it is overpowering in its simple grandeur". In a letter to his friend Erwin Rohde in October 1868, Nietzsche described his reaction to Tristan's prelude: "I simply cannot bring myself to remain critically aloof from this music; every nerve in me is atwitch, and it has been a long time since I had such a lasting sense of ecstasy as with this overture". Even after his break with Wagner, Nietzsche continued to consider Tristan a masterpiece: "Even now I am still in search of a work which exercises such a dangerous fascination, such a spine-tingling and blissful infinity as Tristan – I have sought in vain, in every art."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-qoaioG2UA

It most certainly fulfilled Mishima's desire.

>>16139082
>Author killed himself. Denying Death the chance to take him by surprise.

>>15974802
u srs