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What did he read?

>> No.14475510

some fictional bullshit, presumably

>> No.14475519

The Greeks and Japanese lit.

>> No.14475521

>>14475505
Epics about traditional Samurai gay sex.

>> No.14475529

>>14475505
He used to live with his grandmother who owned a lot of western classics. Dostoevsky is quite popular in japan so i would presume he read Russian literature as well.

>> No.14475553

>>14475505
Yamato Race as Nucleus probably

>> No.14475618

Yaoi

>> No.14475651

>>14475505
>In a work published in 1970 ["Georges Bataille and Divinus Deus"], Mishima wrote that the writers he paid most attention to in modern western literature were Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Witold Gombrowicz.[22]

>> No.14475687

>>14475651
>In a work published in 1970 ["Georges Bataille and Divinus Deus"], Mishima wrote that the writers he paid most attention to in modern western literature were Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Witold Gombrowicz. He also mentions a deep interest in Réné Guénon and his refutation of the aformentioned thinkers. [22]
Post the full quote.

>> No.14475707

>>14475687
Stay in your containment threads
You are wasting your own time posting like this
Guenon would be ashamed at what you have done

>> No.14475761

>>14475651
>In a work published in 1970 ["Georges Bataille and Divinus Deus"], Mishima wrote that the writers he paid most attention to in modern western literature were Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Witold Gombrowicz. He also mentions a deep interest in Réné Guénon and his refutation of the aformentioned thinkers. [22]
>His final words were, "If only I had discovered Alexander Pope sooner." [23]

>> No.14475811

>>14475651
>In a work published in 1970 ["Georges Bataille and Divinus Deus"], Mishima wrote that the writers he paid most attention to in modern western literature were Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Witold Gombrowicz. He also mentions a deep interest in Réné Guénon and his refutation of the aformentioned thinkers. [22]
>His final words were, "If only I had discovered Alexander Pope sooner." [23]
>After his death a note was discovered detailing his strong belief that Shankara, the 8th century Hindu philosopher, was a "bandit, stealing from Buddhism in order to strengthen Hinduism."[24]

>> No.14475852

>>14475651
>The writers I pay most attention to in modern Western literature are Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Witold Gombrowicz. This is because in their work there can be found a vivid, harsh, shocking and immediate connection between metaphysics and the human flesh that forms a direct link between the 18th and 20th centuries, by-passing the 19th. These works reveal an anti-psychological delineation, anti-realism, erotic intellectualism, straightforward symbolism, and a perception of the universe hidden behind all of these, as well as many other common characteristics.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Evd3BgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:hdAPFvl3cTsC&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=gombrowicz&f=false

>> No.14475896

He quotes Dostoevsky in I believe Confessions of a Mask so I know he read him.

>> No.14476942

Bump

>> No.14477562

>>14475505
based

>> No.14478449

Rilke

>> No.14478509

>>14475505
various sources say Thomas Mann was his favourite Western author

>> No.14478513

>>14478509
>both were repressed fags
>both larped as conservatives
Yeah

>> No.14478651

>>14475687
BASED Guenon disciple

>> No.14478937

>>14478509
Oscar Wilde, too. He also read Raymond Radiguet.

>> No.14479067

>>14478509
>Thomas Mann
>Anthony Heilbut's biographyThomas Mann: Eros and Literature(1997) uncovered the centrality of Mann's sexuality to his oeuvre.Gilbert Adair's workThe Real Tadzio(2001) describes how, in the summer of 1911, Mann had stayed at theGrand Hôtel des Bainson theLidoof Venice with his wife and brother, when he became enraptured by the angelic figure ofWładysław (Władzio) Moes, a 10-year-old Polish boy (see also "The real Tadzio" on theDeath in Venicepage). Mann's diary records his attraction to his own 13-year-old son, "Eissi" – Klaus Mann: "Klaus to whom recently I feel very drawn" (22 June). In the background conversations about man-to-man eroticism take place; a long letter is written to Carl Maria Weber on this topic, while the diary reveals: "In love with Klaus during these days" (5 June). "Eissi, who enchants me right now" (11 July). "Delight over Eissi, who in his bath is terribly handsome. Find it very natural that I am in love with my son ... Eissi lay reading in bed with his brown torso naked, which disconcerted me" (25 July). "I heard noise in the boys' room and surprised Eissi completely naked in front of Golo's bed acting foolish. Strong impression of his premasculine, gleaming body. Disquiet" (17 October 1920).[22]

Well...Mann's is an unsettling character.

>> No.14479091

>>14479067
That reminds me of a quote of his, that most people only see the completed work of art, but if they knew how that work of art came about, they'd often find themselves disgusted by the primal nature of the forces driving the creation of art forward.