/lit/ - Literature

>>20201300
based

>>19426123
This, few will understand how his death was his last poem, the final union of pen and sword. The fact that Morita comically botched the job and it had to be finished by Koga was some kind of last irony, I think... intentional perhaps, in the choice of second.

>anon browses /lit/ and literally hasn't read any mishima
at least read mask, golden pavilion and runaway horses you absolute plebeians.

>>19340628
actually based comeback from butters, this rug muncher can join the ladies' auxiliary

>>19211483
Le samouraï

>>18477880
Mishima is a poor man's D'Annunzio in every way.

What are some good books on masculinity? Both fiction and non-fiction welcome

>>17600113
B A N Z A I

post /lit/ pics

>slices OP in half
>grins in satisfaction as a single drop of blood drips down the antique edge

>>16868770
>"Beauty, Ecstasy and Death were equivalent and together stood for his personal holy grail." The equation is suicidal.
Yes.

>>15863941
>The Sailor
>The Golden Pavilion
>Patriotism
>The Sound of Waves
>Afraid to Die(movie)
>Patriotism(movie)
>Confessions
>Thirst for Love
>some random plays or short stories of his
>Sun and Steel

>The Sea of Fertility tetralogy:
>1. Spring Snow
>2. Runaway Horses
>3. The Temple of Golden Dawn
>4. The Decay of the Angel

>>15738312
he was right, just look around you today. "Soon Japan will vanish altogether. In its place, all that will remain is an inorganic, empty, neutral, drab, wealthy, scheming economic giant in a corner of the Far East." Who can deny this is the case in every rich country today?
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>>15740062
it's probably andrew rankin's MISHIMA: AESTHETIC TERRORIST

>>14759673
He wasn't homosexual though

I am a man, I am intelligent, I am attractive, I like culture. I am even religious. But I cannot find any basis for my thoughts if it is not in action. Long time alone un-moving(at least mentally which is often reflected physically) can make this come out.

I read the great philosophers, I absorb every possible piece of knowledge one can and I admire, but in the vastness of possible thought it is lost in any possibility of belief. Plato provided the soundest of ethical systems, but how can one really believe it like a religion? I suppose this is the niche of the modern etching away at my soul, so, I decide to react! When one actually looks at it, it becomes null almost, in contrast to the plentiful, whatever that is. To become a man of "do".

I think I may have to organise my thoughts. I am more presupposed by my protestant upbringing than I had thought.

Still, sometimes it etches, "why?" through so many traps of logic.

>I must become a hero, or die trying
books for this?

i want to be smarter, i am above average most things, including intelignece, its the truth, but i realize there's much more potential to optimise this high iq fag points if i werent a lazy bitch...

this thought eats away at me every minute of my day, i cant rest, enjoy entertainment, have conversations, without thinking where i could've been cognitively rn in my life, if i hadn't been a lazy fag throughout most of it...