/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23336881]

Can someone share those Mishima essays from that Substack? They are paywalled. Can't really seem to find them anywhere else.

[Anonymous No.23337136]

>>23336881
Just pay the 5$ anon, creators gotta eat

[Anonymous No.23337150]

>>23336881
you talking about that asian guy? i don't trust his translations. he clearly has a political agenda and filters Mish through his own ideology.

[Anonymous No.23337154]

>>23337136
You mean deepl-ers bootlegging copyrighted works by Mishima-san?

[Anonymous No.23337155]

>>23337136
I'm not giving that chud any money.

[Anonymous No.23337175]

>>23337150
What ideology? I thought Mishima was basically right-wing.

[Anonymous No.23337178]

>>23337136
You're kinda right. Didn't know that it's only 5$.

[Anonymous No.23337204]

>>23337175
of course Mishima is right-wing, but his political thought is much more nuanced than this guy would let on.

[Anonymous No.23337485]

>>23337154
I just read the first sentence of "Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai" and it's a bit odd:

>After beginning life, people gradually begin art.

[Anonymous No.23337552]

>>23337485
Seems clear enough to me. You begin living and then gradually begin creating art.

[Anonymous No.23338389]

>>23337485
The point he was making is that a lot of artists haven't lived much life so their art is shallow

[Anonymous No.23339087]

>>23337552
>>23338389
It makes sense, I just thought "beginning art" sounds a bit odd. As if some additional verb was missing like "beginning to create art", but it's understandable enough.

[Anonymous No.23339100]

>>23337485
>Art is the highest expression of activity of a race that has developed its physical beauty in unison with itself and Nature; and man must reap the highest joy from the world of sense, before he can mould therefrom the implements of his art; for from the world of sense alone, can he derive so much as the impulse to artistic creation.
t. wagner

[Anonymous No.23339139]

Why did he ack himself?
Was he mentally turbulent?